TY - BOOK AU - Lee,Michael J. AU - Atchison,R.Jarrod TI - We are not one people: secession and separatism in American politics since 1776 T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780190876548 (ebook) : AV - E183 .L38 2022 U1 - 973 23 PY - 2022///] CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Secession KW - United States KW - History KW - Separatist movements KW - National characteristics, American KW - Political culture KW - Politics and government KW - Autonomy and independence movements N1 - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'We Are Not One People' is a far-reaching account of the varied disunionists who have unmade the nation since its separation from Great Britain. Michael J. Lee and R. Jarrod Atchison argue that separatism is endemically American, and the persistence of American separatism reveals as much about the nation's political culture as it does the would-be separatists. Separatist rhetoric has shaped Americans' experience of what it means to be an American, and we can learn much about the durable appeal and enduring fragility of the United States from those who tried to leave it UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190876500.001.0001 ER -