Dr Paul Quigley, lecturer in American History, has recently completed his book on nationalism and identity in the American South before and during the Civil War. Image The American Civil War brought with it a crisis of nationalism. Shifting Grounds reinterprets southern conceptions of allegiance, identity, and citizenship within the contexts of antebellum American national identity and the transatlantic “Age of Nationalism.” Dr Paul Quigley's profile page Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-65 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) This article was published on 2024-08-01