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American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832-1863 (Hardcover)
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American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832-1863 (Hardcover)
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In American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832- 1863, Peter
O'Connor uses an innovative interdisciplinary approach to provide a
corrective to simplified interpretations of British attitudes
towards the United States during the antebellum and early Civil War
periods. Exploring the many complexities of transatlantic politics
and culture, O'Connor examines developing British ideas about U.S.
sectionalism, from the abolition of slavery in the British Empire
and the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina to the Civil War.
Through a close reading of travelogues, fictional accounts,
newspaper reports, and personal papers, O'Connor argues that the
British literate population had a longstanding familiarity with
U.S. sectionalism and with the complex identities of the North and
South. As a consequence of their engagement with published accounts
of America produced in the decades leading up to the Civil War, the
British populace approached the conflict through these preexisting
notions. O'Connor reveals even antislavery commentators tended to
criticize slavery in the abstract and to highlight elements of the
system that they believed compared favorably to the condition of
free blacks in the North. As a result, the British saw slavery in
the U.S. in national as opposed to sectional terms, which collapsed
the moral division between North and South. O'Connor argues that
the British identified three regions within America- the British
Cavalier South, the British Puritan New England, and the ethnically
heterogeneous New York and Pennsylvania region- and demonstrates
how the apparent lack of a national American culture prepared
Britons for the idea of disunity within the U.S. He then goes on to
highlight how British commentators engaged with American debates
over political culture, political policy, and states' rights. In
doing so, he reveals the complexity of the British understanding of
American sectionalism in the antebellum era and its consequences
for British public opinion during the Civil War. American
Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832- 1863 re-conceptualizes our
understanding of British engagements with the United States during
the mid-nineteenth century, offering a new explanation of how the
British understood America in the antebellum and Civil War eras.
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