North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era

by Susan-Mary Grant

Book Overview

In most studies of nationalism, the United States is curiously ignored or is examined only during its colonial and republican periods. But it was the Civil War, argues Susan-Mary Grant, that truly formed the American nation by unifying the states once and for all, abolishing slavery, and setting the country on the path to modernity. In light of this, says Grant, the antebellum period was the crucial phase of American national construction. In North...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700614257
• ISBN13: 9780700614257
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"