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| One Nation
or Two?: The Coming of the Civil War and the Politics of the
Modern World
The war that the Americans called “civil” was the first great clash between modern nation-states in the West. UVa professor, Peter Onuf will present the results of a long-term collaboration with Nicholas G. Onuf, an international relations theorist, on the emerging world of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Onuf will take a fresh look at the coming of the Civil War, arguing that conflicts over foreign trade policy played a key role in the deepening sectional crisis. April 7, 2005 |
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About the Speaker Peter Onuf Professor Onuf received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He is widely regarded as the foremost Jeffersonian scholar of our time. He has written extensively on sectionalism, federalism, and political economy and on the political thought of Thomas Jefferson. |
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