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The revolution of 1861 : the American Civil War in the age of nationalist conflict / Andre M. Fleche.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleche, Andre M.
- Series:
- Civil War America.
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--United States--History--19th century.
- Nationalism.
- Nationalism--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Nationalism--Confederate States of America--History.
- Self-determination, National--United States--History--19th century.
- Self-determination, National.
- Self determination--Europe--History--19th century.
- Self determination.
- Revolutions--Europe--History--19th century.
- Revolutions.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- United States.
- Europe--History--1848-1849.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas. Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre M. Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor the world over influenced American interpretations of the strains on the Union and the growing differences between North and South. Setting familiar events in an international context, Fleche enlarges our understanding of nationalism in the nineteenth century, with startling implications for our und
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908845-7-2
- 979-88-9313-388-2
- 1-4696-0194-X
- 0-8078-6992-9
- OCLC:
- 769344369
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