The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393952032)

But a series of shocks--social, economic, intellectual, and, finally, political--gave an increasingly distinctive twist to the ideology of nationalism that developed in the South. By 1860, through agreeing with the North over constitutional fundamentals and sharing with other Americans similar hopes and fears, many Southerners had concluded that only in a separate Southern nation could their rights and security be preserved. This book is a study of how and why the ideology of Southern nationalism arose and spread. It attempts to explain within the framework of an evolving national character how Northern and Southern versions of American nationalism, both of which professed allegiance to the Constitution, led to civil war.

Author: John McCardell
ISBN-10: 0393952037
ISBN-13: 9780393952032
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/17/1981
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 7.95h x 4.89w x 1.28d