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.

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.

A Child's View of Divorce. Through powerful words and illustrations, Nick tells his story of his parents' divorce to other children. Children listen to and learn from other children. There is no better way to explain the feelings and changes associated with divorce than from one child to another. There are boy and girl versions of A Child's View of Divorce. These books are unique because they relay the story of divorce as told and experienced by brother and sister, Nick and Julianna.

A Child's View of Divorce. Through powerful words and illustrations, Julianna tells her story of her parents' divorce to other children. Children listen to and learn from other children. There is no better way to explain the feelings and changes associated with divorce than from one child to another. There are girl and boy versions of A Child's View of Divorce. These books are unique because they relay the story of divorce as told and experienced by sister and brother, Julianna and Nick.

A Child's View of Divorce. Through powerful words and illustrations, Julianna tells her story of her parents' divorce to other children. Children listen to and learn from other children. There is no better way to explain the feelings and changes associated with divorce than from one child to another. There are girl and boy versions of A Child's View of Divorce. These books are unique because they relay the story of divorce as told and experienced by sister and brother, Julianna and Nick.

A Child's View of Divorce. Through powerful words and illustrations, Nick tells his story of his parents' divorce to other children. Children listen to and learn from other children. There is no better way to explain the feelings and changes associated with divorce than from one child to another. There are boy and girl versions of A Child's View of Divorce. These books are unique because they relay the story of divorce as told and experienced by brother and sister, Nick and Julianna.