Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Friendly Preconditions -- Chapter 2 Political Friendship and State Repression, 1851–1858 -- Chapter 3 Political Friendship in Power, 1858–1862 -- Chapter 4 Political Friendship and Political Crisis, 1863–1866 -- Chapter 5 Personal Pasts as National History -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation"This Most August Sovereign"; Elites in the American Republic; Bache's Program for National Consolidation II; The United States Coast Survey; The National Institute; Bache's Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute; European Conditions; Guarding the Palladium; American Science by an American Union; Bache's Program for National Consolidation III; The American Association for the Advancement of Science; Bache's 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President; Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854; A National Club…”

“…Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an “other” which is constructed in alterity. …”

Resumen

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The vanishing point of German history -- The mirror turn lamp: senses of the nation before nationalism -- On catastrophic religious violence and national belonging: the Thirty Years War and the massacre of Jews in social memory -- From play to act: anti-Jewish violence in German and European history during the long nineteenth century -- Eliminationist racism -- Conclusion: Continuities in German history…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: A Britain forgotten -- Getting out of the whale -- A little holding of ground -- The properties of my memory remain -- All nations are odious, but some less odious than others -- The socialists in power -- Brief city -- Acquaintance plus wonder -- Conclusion: The magic of everyday life…”