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Author Fleche, Andre M

Title The revolution of 1861 : the American Civil War in the age of nationalist conflict / Andre M. Fleche
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Contents 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
Summary Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labour the world over influenced American interpretations of the strains on the Union and the growing differences between North and South
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Nationalism -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Nationalism -- Confederate States of America -- History
Self-determination, National -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Self-determination, National -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Nationalism
Revolutions
Self-determination, National
War -- Causes
Nationalismus
Selbstbestimmung
Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Nationalisme.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140219
Europe -- History -- 1848-1849. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045711
Subject Europe
Southern States
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011024071
ISBN 9780807869925
0807869929
9781469601946
146960194X
0807835234
9780807835234