This book explores the tumultuous history of state making in mid-nineteenth- century North America from a continental perspective. Essays by experts on Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, Mexicös fight against French imperialists, and indigenous Americans shed new light on events traditionally studied as separate national stories.
This book explores the tumultuous history of state making in mid-nineteenth- century North America from a continental perspective. Essays by experts on Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, Mexicös fight against French imperialists, and indigenous Americans shed new light on events traditionally studied as separate national stories.
Jewel L. Spangler (Edited By) Jewel L. Spangler is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century (2008) and co-editor of Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham, 2020). Her current project is a microhistory titled "The Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811 in History and Memory." Frank Towers (Edited By) Frank Towers is Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (2004) as well as co-editor of anthologies including The Old South's Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress (2011); Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (2015); and Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham, 2020).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century North America Frank Towers 1 Part I: Making Nations 1 The United States from the Inside Out and the Southside North Steven Hahn 25 2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s Andrew Smith 36 3 Civil War and Nation Building in North America, 1848-1867 Pablo Mijangos y González 61 4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors, and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty Robert Bonner 90 Part II: Indigenous Polities 5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South Jane Dinwoodie 107 6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms on the Northwest Plains, 1855-1877 Ryan Hall 132 7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction of Mexican Sovereignty Marcela Terrazas y Basante 153 Part III: The Complications of the Market 8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North America: Th e United States, 1850-1920 Christopher Clark 177 9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation Benjamin H. Johnson 200 10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War Mary P. Ryan 220 Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place Frank Towers 251 Acknowledgments 261 List of Contributors 263 Index 265
Introduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century North America Frank Towers 1 Part I: Making Nations 1 The United States from the Inside Out and the Southside North Steven Hahn 25 2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s Andrew Smith 36 3 Civil War and Nation Building in North America, 1848-1867 Pablo Mijangos y González 61 4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors, and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty Robert Bonner 90 Part II: Indigenous Polities 5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South Jane Dinwoodie 107 6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms on the Northwest Plains, 1855-1877 Ryan Hall 132 7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction of Mexican Sovereignty Marcela Terrazas y Basante 153 Part III: The Complications of the Market 8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North America: Th e United States, 1850-1920 Christopher Clark 177 9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation Benjamin H. Johnson 200 10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War Mary P. Ryan 220 Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place Frank Towers 251 Acknowledgments 261 List of Contributors 263 Index 265
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