Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Reconstructing America)

ISBN 10: 0823288455 / ISBN 13: 9780823288458

Published by Fordham University Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Reconstructing America)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823288455
• ISBN 13: 9780823288458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Jewel L. Spangler is an associate professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Virginians Reborn (University of Virginia Press, 2008) and co-editor of Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham University Press, 2020). Her current project is a microhistory titled “The Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811 in History and Memory.”

Frank Towers is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (University of Virginia Press, 2004) and the co- editor of The Old South's Modern Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2011), Confederate Cities (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and Remaking North American Sovereignty (Fordham University Press, 2020).

Robert Bonner is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in the Dartmouth history department and author of Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood.

Christopher Clark is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. His books include Social Change in America: From the Revolution through the Civil War.

Jane Dinwoodie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge. She is currently writing a book about Indian Removal and the thousands of people who avoided it.