A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era

Author/Contributor(s):	Lang, Andrew F
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	08/01/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In this sweeping history of political ideas, Andrew F. Lang reappraises the Civil War era as a crisis of American exceptionalism. Through this lens, Lang shows how the intellectual, political, and social ramifications of the war and its meaning rippled through the decades that followed, not only for the nation's own people but also in the ways the nation sought to redefine its place on the world stage"--