| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era. By Susan-Mary Grant. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. xiv, 250 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1025-1.)

Susan-Mary Grant takes issue with dominant approaches to nationalism and the road to Civil War in this provocative and focused study. The aggressive and intolerant nationalism of the mid- to late-nineteenth-century West had its epitome in the antebellum North. By the 1850s the South became the "scapegoat" for such figures as Horace Mann, Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and William Cullen Bryant, whose public and private writings Grant artfully sets against newspapers, magazines, and travel accounts. As a result, "a truly national outlook became impossible to sustain," and northern nationalists became sectionalists. . . .

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