A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era
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The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
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Andrew F. Lang., & Andrew F. Lang|AUTHOR. (2020). A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era . The University of North Carolina Press.

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