A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era

by Andrew F. Lang

Book Overview

Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England, economic unrest in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469672499
• ISBN13: 9781469672496
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"