The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860

by John M. McCardell Jr. and John Mc Cardell

Book Overview

As the nineteenth century began, the United States was a country in search of definition, of national character. Like other Americans, Southerners found the process of national self-definition urgent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393952037
• ISBN13: 9780393952032
• Release Date: November 1981
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.9" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The most complete accounting of causes of the Civil War.

Although thoroughly researched and brilliantly insightful, the book is so well-written it will appeal to academics and lay people interested in the economic and human forces which led to the most horrific bloodshed in American History.