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

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University Press of Kansas, 2000 - 250 pages
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.
 

Contents

Myths and Memories
19
A World Apart
37
One and Inseparable?
67
Firsthand Impressions
81
Representative Mann
111
When Is a Nation Not a Nation?
130
EPILOGUE
153
APPENDIX
173
Notes
179
Selected Bibliography
215
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