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Continent in Crisis - The U.S. Civil War in North America (Hardcover)
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Continent in Crisis - The U.S. Civil War in North America (Hardcover)
Series: Reconstructing America
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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.
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