Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America

Schoen, Brian

ISBN 10: 153150129X / ISBN 13: 9781531501297

Edité par Fordham University Press, 2023

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2023. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

N° de réf. du vendeur V9781531501297

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• Titre: Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America
• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 153150129X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781531501297
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

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. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War's connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West.

As the United States went through its Civil War and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile, Britain's North American colonies were in complex and contested negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West, indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring elsewhere in North America.

By reading North America into the history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for grabs.

À propos des auteurs

Jewel L. Spangler is an associate professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Virginians Reborn (University of Virginia Press, 2008) and co-editor of Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham University Press, 2020). Her current project is a microhistory titled "The Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811 in History and Memory."

Frank Towers is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (University of Virginia Press, 2004) and the co- editor of The Old South's Modern Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2011), Confederate Cities (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and Remaking North American Sovereignty (Fordham University Press, 2020).

Alice L. Baumgartner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War (Basic Books, 2020).

Beau Cleland is an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. He is also a combat veteran of the US Army who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. His current research focuses on the ties between the Confederacy and the British Empire during the Civil War, and the importance of private citizens in creating and sustaining support for the rebellion in British America. His scholarship has appeared in The Journal of Southern History.

Susan-Mary Grant is a professor of American history at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of The Concise History of the United States of America (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and most recently Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice (Routledge, 2015). She is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and is working on a book about Civil War veterans.