Remaking North American sovereignty : state transformation in the 1860s / Jewel L. Spangler and Frank Towers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spangler, Jewel L., 1961- editor.

Towers, Frank, editor.

Series:

Reconstructing America.

Fordham scholarship online.

Reconstructing America

Fordham scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North America--History--19th century.

North America.

North America--Politics and government--19th century.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

Canada--History--1841-1867.

Canada.

Mexico--History--1810-.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text 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, Mexico's fight against French imperialists, and indigenous Americans shed new light on events traditionally studied as separate national stories.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Sovereignty and the nation-state in nineteenth-century north America

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

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 sovereignty

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

Contributors

Index

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2020).

ISBN:

0-8232-8847-1

0-8232-9043-3

0-8232-8846-3

OCLC:

1150171178