A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) Print As the battle unfolds throughout

As the battle unfolds throughout the town

but Custer’s baptism of fire came during the Civil War

even secured the Democratic nomination for president in 1864

224 pages with 150 pictures

no better sources exist to reveal human attitudes toward the environment in the Civil War era

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) Print As the battle unfolds throughoutby 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,