num_pages: 250
description: Grant (U.S. history, U. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) looks at Northern attitudes towards the South in the period immediately following the American Civil War. She argues that the antebellum period was the crucial period for the construction of the American national identity. Suggesting that the Republican Party, in its first national election campaign, constructed Northern regionalism into an "American" identity that defined itself as antithetical to Southern identity, she supports her thesis by looking at such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, and Horace Mann. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era
titlecomplete: North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era
genres: History
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas