Continent in Crisis : : The U.S. Civil War in North America / / ed. by Frank Towers, Jewel L. Spangler, Brian Schoen.
Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Reconstructing America
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 3 b/w ullustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The United States Civil War Era and Sovereignty on the North American Continent
- 1 Fugitive Slaves, Free Soil, and the Contest over Sovereignty in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1821–1867
- 2 Inveterate Imperialists: Contested Imperialisms, North American History, and the Coming of the U.S. Civil War
- 3 Walker to Riel: State Consolidation on the Margins of Empire
- 4 Reform Wars, Royal Visits, and U.S. Views of Popular Sovereignty in 1860
- 5 “The Pirates and Their Abettors in Th is Province” Sovereignty, Violence, and Confederate Operations in Britain’s Atlantic Colonies, 1863–1865
- 6 “A Long-Cherished Plan” Detroit and the U.S. Annexation of Canada during the Nineteenth Century
- 7 From Memphis to Mexico: The U.S. Army’s Assertion of Sovereignty during Reconstruction
- 8 “Hold the Fort” Securing the Soldiers’ State in Nineteenth-Century America
- Conclusion: Law and Order in Nineteenth-Century North America
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index