A Contest of Civilizations

preview-18
  • A Contest of Civilizations Book Detail

  • Author : Andrew F. Lang
  • Release Date : 2020-11-24
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 569
  • ISBN 13 : 1469660083
  • File Size : 72,72 MB

A Contest of Civilizations by Andrew F. Lang PDF Summary

Book Description: Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England, economic unrest in Europe, and upheaval in the Caribbean and Latin America began to influence domestic affairs, the foundational ideas of national identity also faced new questions. And with the outbreak of civil war, as two rival governments each claimed the mantle of civilized democracy, the United States' claim to unique standing in the community of nations dissolved into crisis. Could the Union chart a distinct course in human affairs when slaveholders, abolitionists, free people of color, and enslaved African Americans all possessed irreconcilable definitions of nationhood? 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own A Contest of Civilizations books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

A Contest of Civilizations

A Contest of Civilizations

File Size : 63,63 MB
Total View : 2968 Views
DOWNLOAD

Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revo

In the Wake of War

In the Wake of War

File Size : 54,54 MB
Total View : 8029 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation, inaugurating a tradition that persisted through the late nineteenth and early twentie

Upon the Fields of Battle

Upon the Fields of Battle

File Size : 5,5 MB
Total View : 8305 Views
DOWNLOAD

New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and

Racial Reconstruction

Racial Reconstruction

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 488 Views
DOWNLOAD

'Racial Reconstruction' explores how the complex histories of Atlantic slavery and abolition influenced Chinese immigration, especially at the level of represen

Grand Army of Labor

Grand Army of Labor

File Size : 24,24 MB
Total View : 6713 Views
DOWNLOAD

Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of wor