The revolution of 1861
Subtitle: the American Civil War in the age of nationalist conflict
By: Andre M. Fleche
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780807835234
Subjects: Revolutions; Self determination; National Self determination; Nationalism; Causes; History
Description: "Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre 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"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the American Civil War and the age of revolution; title: World revolutions and the coming of the American Civil War; title: The revolution of 1861; title: The problem of northern nationalism; title: The South and the principle of self-determination; title: The last best hope of earth; title: The white republic; title: Conclusion : American nationalism and the nineteenth-century world.