North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era

by Susan-Mary Grant

Book Overview

This text argues that the Civil War truly formed the American nation and that the antebellum period was the crucial phase of American national construction. Grant focuses on a Northern nationalism based on an opposition to things Southern and links national construction with European nationalism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700610251
• ISBN13: 9780700610259
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"