Description: This collection of essays allows us to view within a broader international context one of modern history's bloodiest conflicts over secession. The contributors to this volume consider a wide range of topics related to secession, separatism, and the nationalist passions that inflame such conflicts.
Brief description: DON H. DOYLE is McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. His books include Nations Divided (Georgia) and Faulkner's County.
Review Quotes:
These thought-provoking essays explore the role played by secession in state making and state breaking in the modern world. They will be of great interest to students of nationalism and national identity.
--Peter Kolchin "Henry Clay Reed Professor of History, University of Delaware"