A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) souvenir and in Texas and Kansas

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Introduction to the Paperback Edition

the conflict created a new disease environment by fostering the spread of microbes among vulnerable soldiers

A special section of the book explores the haunted Civil War prisons at Johnson’s Island in Ohio

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) souvenir and in Texas and Kansasby 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,