North over South

Name: North over South
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ISBN: 9780700614257

ISBN-10: 0700614257

ISBN-13: 9780700614257

Edition: 2000

Authors: Susan-Mary Grant

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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 Over South, Grant offers an original and controversial interpretation of a much discussed but poorly understood period of American history. Despite the attention generally given to Southern nationalism, Grant focuses on what Northerners thought…

Book details

Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 7/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at Newcastle University. She is the author of North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000), The War for a Nation: The American Civil War (2006), and editor of Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War (2003) and Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States (2010).