Protecting America: Order, Nation and Exception in Henry Carey's Social Science

Matteo M. Rossi

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-2752/8542

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Matteo M. Rossi Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Matteo M. Rossi, born in Genova in 1993, is a student from the University of Bologna, where he is concluding a Master Degree in International Relations. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Political Sciences at the University of Pavia in 2016 and a Diploma in Social Sciences at IUSS Pavia in 2017. Between August and October 2018 he was visiting scholar at Columbia University (Political Science Department) in New York. He is interested in Nineteenth-century American history, in Karl Marx’s thought, in the history of political and economic thought. He is currently working on his master thesis on Henry Charles Carey’s social science.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-2752/8542

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Henry Charles Carey, Social Science, Protectionism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism, American Capitalism, American State

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The essay offers a new understanding of Henry Charles Carey’s (1793–1879) social science. As one of the major intellectuals of the antebellum period that actively participated in the Republican Party, Carey’s works marked a reinterpretation of US nationalism in which the State became the guarantee of the exceptional American social order against social conflict and economic crisis following the capitalistic transition. Protectionism was conceived as a political measure to defend the harmony of the nation’s interests. His social science should be understood as an attempt to scientifically re-legitimize the order: as a social science of the American nation.

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