American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields
and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict
from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors
position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider
transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a
multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations,
revolutionary independence movements, and slave uprisings—all
taking place in the tumultuous decade of the 1860s. The multiple
conflicts described in these essays illustrate how the United
States' sectional strife was caught up in a larger, complex
struggle in which nations and empires on both sides of the Atlantic
vied for the control of the future. These struggles were all part
of a vast web, connecting not just Washington and Richmond but also
Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Rio de Janeiro and--on the
other side of the Atlantic--London, Paris, Madrid, and Rome. This
volume breaks new ground by charting a hemispheric upheaval and
expanding Civil War scholarship into the realms of transnational
and imperial history.
American Civil Wars creates new
connections between the uprisings and civil wars in and outside of
American borders and places the United States within a global
context of other nations.
Contributors:
Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina
Anne Eller, Yale University
Richard Huzzey, University of Liverpool
Howard Jones, University of Alabama
Patrick J. Kelly, University of Texas at San Antonio
Rafael de Bivar Marquese, University of Sao Paulo
Erika Pani, College of Mexico
Hilda Sabato, University of Buenos Aires
Steve Sainlaude, University of Paris IV Sorbonne
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University
Jay Sexton, University of Oxford