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EBOOK Shifting Grounds:Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199910694
EAN: 9F5D76EAEB
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Stron: 344
Data wydania: 2011
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Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift        beneath their feet. The conflict over slavery that led to the Civil War forced them        to confront the difficult problems of nationalism. What made a nation a nation?        Could an individual or a group change nationality at will? What were the rights and        responsibilities of national citizenship? Why should nations exist at all?As they        contemplated these questions, white southerners drew on their long experience as        Americans and their knowledge of nationalism in the wider world. This was true of        not just the radical secessionists who shattered the Union in 1861, but also of the        moderate majority who struggled to balance their southern and American loyalties. As        they pondered the changing significance of the Fourth of July, as they fused ideals        of masculinity and femininity with national identity, they revealed the shifting        meanings of nationalism and citizenship. Southerners also looked across the        Atlantic, comparing southern separatism with movements in Hungary and Ireland, and        applying the European model of romantic nationalism first to the United States and        later to the Confederacy.In the turmoil of war, the Confederacy's national        government imposed new, stringent obligations of citizenship, while the shared        experience of suffering united many Confederates in a sacred national community of        sacrifice. For Unionists, die-hard Confederates, and the large majority torn between        the two, nationalism became an increasingly pressing problem. In Shifting Grounds        Paul Quigley brilliantly reinterprets southern conceptions of allegiance, identity,        and citizenship within the contexts of antebellum American national identity and the        transatlantic "e;Age of Nationalism,"e; shedding new light on the ideas and motivations        behind America's greatest conflict.

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