Continent in Crisis : : The U.S. Civil War in North America / / ed. by Frank Towers, Jewel L. Spangler, Brian Schoen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Baumgartner, Alice L.,; Baumgartner, Alice,; Cleland, Beau D.,; Cleland, Beau,; Grant, Susan-Mary,; Greenberg, Amy S.,; Greenberg, Amy,; Hammond, John Craig,; Quist, John W.,; Schoen, Brian,; Slap, Andrew L.,; Spangler, Jewel L.,; Towers, Frank,
• HerausgeberIn: Schoen, Brian,; Spangler, Jewel L.,; Towers, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Reconstructing America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 3 b/w ullustrations

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...

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