"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
- ISBN10 0393968472
- ISBN13 9780393968477
- Publish Date 21 August 1996 (first published 17 July 1994)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 15 May 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English