The Revolution of 1861
The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
Andre M. Fleche
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 03/2012
Pages: 224
Subject: History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807869925
DESCRIPTION
Confederates argued that European nationalist movements provided models for their efforts to establish a new nation-state, while Unionists stressed the role of the state in balancing order and liberty in a revolutionary age. Diplomats and politicians used such arguments to explain their causes to thinkers throughout the world. Fleche maintains that the fight over the future of republican government in America was also a battle over the meaning of revolution in the Atlantic world and, as such, can be fully understood only as a part of the world-historical context in which it was fought.