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

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By Jewel L. Spangler (Editor), Frank Towers (Editor), Robert E. Bonner (Contribution by)
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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 Author


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).

Product Details
ISBN: 9780823288441
ISBN-10: 0823288447
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Date: April 7th, 2020
Pages: 288
Language: English
Series: Reconstructing America