A contest of civilizations : exposing the crisis of American exceptionalism in the Civil War era

Author/Creator:

Lang, Andrew F., 1982- author

Publication/Creation:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

A contest of civilizations : exposing the crisis of American exceptionalism in the Civil War era / Andrew F. Lang

Series Titles:

Littlefield history of the Civil War era
Littlefield history of the Civil War era.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Exceptionalism--United States
National characteristics, American
Group identity--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence
United States--Civilization

Description/Summary

Summary:

"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"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

558 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937273411602486

ISBN:

9781469660073
1469660075

OCLC Number:

1147895199

Barcode:

010003088284