Paul Quigley

Shifting Grounds

Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The American Civil War brought with it a crisis of nationalism. Shifting Grounds reinterprets southern conceptions of allegiance, identity, and citizenship within the contexts of antebellum American national identity and the transatlantic "Age of Nationalism."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199735488
• ISBN-10: 0199735484
• Artikelnr.: 37256956

Autorenporträt

Lecturer in American History, University of Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Foundations: Nationalism in the Antebellum American South
Chapter 2. Dreams: Southern Nationalism before Nationhood
Chapter 3. The Pinch: American Nationalism in Crisis
Chapter 4. Definitions: Confederate Citizenship and National Identity in 1861
Chapter 5. War: Suffering, Sacrifice, and the Trials of Nationalism
Conclusion
List of abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography