Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North

by Melinda Lawson

Book Overview

The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to an unprecedented expansion of federal power. But the Civil War did more than that: as Melinda Lawson shows, it brought about a change in American national identity, redefining the relationship between the individual and the government.

Though much has been written about the Civil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700612076
• ISBN13: 9780700612079
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.0"