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Livre 15 sur 16: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era

Lang, Andrew F.

 
9781469660073: A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era
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ISBN 10 : 1469660075 ISBN 13 : 9781469660073
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021

Synopsis

Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England, economic unrest in Europe, and upheaval in the Caribbean and Latin America began to influence domestic affairs, the foundational ideas of national identity also faced new questions. And with the outbreak of civil war, as two rival governments each claimed the mantle of civilized democracy, the United States' claim to unique standing in the community of nations dissolved into crisis. Could the Union chart a distinct course in human affairs when slaveholders, abolitionists, free people of color, and enslaved African Americans all possessed irreconcilable definitions of nationhood?

In this sweeping history of political ideas, Andrew F. Lang reappraises the Civil War era as a crisis of American exceptionalism. Through this lens, Lang shows how the intellectual, political, and social ramifications of the war and its meaning rippled through the decades that followed, not only for the nation's own people but also in the ways the nation sought to redefine its place on the world stage.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew F. Lang is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469660075
ISBN 13 
9781469660073
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
568
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