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