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The revolution of 1861 : the American Civil War in the age of nationalist conflict /

Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labour the world over influenced American interpretations of the strains on the Union and the growing differences between North and South...

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Main Author: Fleche, Andre M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Nationalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Nationalism > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Nationalism > Confederate States of America > History.
Self-determination, National > United States > History > 19th century.
Self-determination, National > Europe > History > 19th century.
Revolutions > Europe > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Europe > History > 1848-1849.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780807869925
0807869929
9781469601946
146960194X
0807835234
9780807835234
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the American Civil War and the age of revolution
  • World revolutions and the coming of the American Civil War
  • The revolution of 1861
  • The problem of northern nationalism
  • The South and the principle of self-determination
  • The last best hope of earth
  • The white republic
  • Conclusion : American nationalism and the nineteenth-century world.

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