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Book Review
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Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil
War North. By Melinda Lawson. (Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 2002. xvi, 265 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1207-6.)
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| In an original and compelling book, Melinda Lawson tracks various ways Northerners constructed a "new nationalism" within a democratic framework. She inquires into the meaning(s) of patriotism, the nation-state, and individual liberties amid a wartime surge to tie the people ever more closely to a unified purpose and make freedom more inclusive and expansive. |
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