Disunion!

Disunion!
Author: Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807832324

The author of We Mean to Be Counted blends political history with intellectual and cultural history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis in a study that brings together the voices of competing interests, including fugitive slaves, white Southern dissenters, free black activists, abolitionists, and other outsiders.

Herman Melville and the American Calling

Herman Melville and the American Calling
Author: William V. Spanos
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008-08-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0791477746

Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U.S.-led global “war on terror.”