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, Mexicos fight against French imperialists, and indigenous Americans shed new light on events traditionally studied as separate national stories.
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.
| Introduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century North America |
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1 The United States from the Inside Out and the Southside North |
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2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s |
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3 Civil War and Nation Building in North America, 1848-1867 |
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Pablo Mijangos Y. Gonzalez |
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4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors, and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty |
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PART II INDIGENOUS POLITIES |
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5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South |
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6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms on the Northwest Plains, 1855-1877 |
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7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction of Mexican Sovereignty |
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Marcela Terrazas Y. Basante |
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PART III THE COMPLICATIONS OF THE MARKET |
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8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North America: The United States, 1850-1920 |
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9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation |
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10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War |
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| Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place Frank Towers |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| List of Contributors |
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| Index |
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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).
