A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) campfire its effectiveness in freeing the

its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion

Smith’s book also puts the sum of these battles into the larger context of the Vicksburg campaign

such as the political ideals of the American founding

This soldier is carrying fifty rounds of ammunition in an imported English Enfield cartridge box

Release date: November 14

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) campfire its effectiveness in freeing theby Andrew F. Lang 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,