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The revolution of 1861, the American Civil War in the age of nationalist conflict, Andre M. Fleche

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The revolution of 1861

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Andre M. Fleche

Civil War America

the American Civil War in the age of nationalist conflict

"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

Introduction : the American Civil War and the age of revolution -- World revolutions and the coming of the American Civil War -- The revolution of 1861 -- The problem of northern nationalism -- The South and the principle of self-determination -- The last best hope of earth -- The white republic -- Conclusion : American nationalism and the nineteenth-century world