{"product_id":"continent-in-crisis-the-u-s-civil-war-in-north-america-paperback","title":"Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Schoen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJewel L. Spangler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFrank Towers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by leading historians of the mid-nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America's mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War's connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the United States went through its Civil War and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile, Britain's North American colonies were in complex and contested negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West, indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring elsewhere in North America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy reading North America into the history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for grabs.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Schoen (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBrian Schoen \u003c\/b\u003eis the James Richard Hamilton\/Baker and Hostetler Professor of Humanities and chair of the Department of History at Ohio University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War \u003c\/i\u003e(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and several recent book chapters, articles, and edited anthologies on the early American Republic and Civil War Era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJewel L. Spangler (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJewel L. Spangler \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Calgary. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eVirginians Reborn\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Virginia Press, 2008) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRemaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s \u003c\/i\u003e(Fordham University Press, 2020). Her current project is a microhistory titled \"The Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811 in History and Memory.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Towers (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrank Towers \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Virginia Press, 2004) and the co- editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Old South's Modern Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2011), \u003ci\u003eConfederate Cities\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and \u003ci\u003eRemaking North American Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e (Fordham University Press, 2020). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648514908262,"sku":"9781531501297","price":76.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/ZG4xOXlxTndlVDRtYk93NUc1NTNLdz09.webp?v=1779515265","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/continent-in-crisis-the-u-s-civil-war-in-north-america-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}