The Price of Nationhood

"A vivid portrait of a country and a region at war, rich with detail of how the prologue to the war and the conduct of it changed the lives of everyone who lived within the country's borders-men, women, slaves, merchants, farmers, financiers." -Wall Street Journal "The price of Nationhood offers us a richly textured portrait of a people struggling to preserve a familiar world even as they created a new one. It is local history as its best." -Journal of American History