Remaking North American Sovereignty

Remaking North American Sovereignty

State Transformation in the 1860s

  • Author: Spangler, Jewel L.; Towers, Frank; Bonner, Robert E.; Clark, Christopher; Dinwoodie, Jane; Hahn, Steven; Hall, Ryan; Johnson, Benjamin; Mijangos, Pablo; Ryan, Mary; Smith, Andrew; Spangler, Jewel L.; Terrazas y Basante, Marcela; Towers, Frank; Slap,
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Serie: Reconstructing America
  • ISBN: 9780823288458
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823288472
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823288465
  • Place of publication:  New York , United States
  • Year of publication: 2020
  • Year of digital publication: 2020
  • Month: April
  • Language: English

North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North America from a patchwork of contested polities.

Remaking North American Sovereignty brings together distinguished experts on the histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United States to re-evaluate this era of political transformation in light of the global turn in nineteenth-century historiography. They uncover the continental dimensions of the 1860s crisis that have been obscured by historical traditions that confine these conflicts within its national framework.

  • Cover
  • REMAKING NORTH AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century North America
  • PART I MAKING NATIONS
    • 1 The United States from the Inside Out and the Southside North
    • 2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s
    • 3 Civil War and Nation Building in North America, 1848–1867
    • 4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors, and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty
  • PART II INDIGENOUS POLITIES
    • 5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South
    • 6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms on the Northwest Plains, 1855–1877
    • 7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction of Mexican
  • PART III THE COMPLICATIONS OF THE MARKET
    • 8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North America: The United States, 1850–1920
    • 9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation
    • 10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War
    • Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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