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Book SynopsisThis book 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in
Nineteenth-Century North America
Frank Towers | 1
Part I: Making Nations
1 The United States from the Inside Out and
the Southside North
Steven Hahn | 25
2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada
Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s
Andrew Smith | 36
3 Civil War and Nation Building in
North America, 1848–1867
Pablo Mijangos y González | 61
4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors,
and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty
Robert Bonner | 90
Part II: Indigenous Polities
5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities
and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South
Jane Dinwoodie | 107
6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms
on the Northwest Plains, 1855–1877
Ryan Hall | 132
7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction
of Mexican Sovereignty
Marcela Terrazas y Basante | 153
Part III: The Complications of the Market
8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North
America: Th e United States, 1850–1920
Christopher Clark | 177
9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina
and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation
Benjamin H. Johnson | 200
10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War
Mary P. Ryan | 220
Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place
Frank Towers | 251
Acknowledgments | 261
List of Contributors | 263
Index | 265
