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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Susan-Mary Grant and Peter J. Parish, editors. Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War. (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 267. $34.95.
This collection is an Anglo-American production, consisting of essays by eight British and four American scholars. It is also a tribute to the late Peter J. Parish, for many years a leading British scholar of the American Civil War and a promoter of Atlantic crossings in a subfield of U.S. history not noted for them. Before his death in May 2002, Parish completed two essays for this volume, one on Abraham Lincoln and American nationhood, and the other (in collaboration with Adam I. P. Smith) on northern party politics. Susan-Mary Grant has ably put things together, contributed a chapter of her own on the Civil War and nationalism, and coauthored the volume's introduction.	1
Even by the standards of edited collections, this one is fairly diffuse. Four of the twelve essays were originally composed for other venues, and only one essay—political scientist Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick's arid Constitutional treatise on Lincoln—makes even passing reference to the others. Consequently, each piece stands or falls on the merits of its own arguments, although for the most part these are ruminative rather than argumentative essays. With the partial exception of James McPherson's contribution, all are based on secondary sources, or on easily accessible primary sources such as newspapers and the published works of Lincoln. The first four essays by Charles W. Joyner, Bruce Collins, Robert Cook, and Melvyn Stokes all have to do with white southern memories of the Civil War, or with the civil rights backlash against them. The next four by Smith, Parish, Sedgwick, and McPherson all focus on Lincoln. The last four, although grouped together editorially, are more of a hodgepodge: Brian Holden Reid on civil-military relations, Patricia Lucie on the Civil War constitutional amendments, Grant on American nationalism, and Richard N. Current on the postwar rise to world power.	. . .

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