Remaking North American Sovereignty

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).

This 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.

Introduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State inNineteenth-Century North AmericaFrank Towers | 1Part I: Making Nations1 The United States from the Inside Out andthe Southside NorthSteven Hahn | 252 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why CanadaChose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860sAndrew Smith | 363 Civil War and Nation Building inNorth America, 1848-1867Pablo Mijangos y González | 614 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiorsand the Illustration of North American SovereigntyRobert Bonner | 90Part II: Indigenous Polities5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communitiesand Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War SouthJane Dinwoodie | 1076 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialismson the Northwest Plains, 1855-1877Ryan Hall | 1327 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Constructionof Mexican SovereigntyMarcela Terrazas y Basante | 153Part III: The Complications of the Market8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian NorthAmerica: Th e United States, 1850-1920Christopher Clark | 1779 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortinaand Louis Riel in an Age of National ConsolidationBenjamin H. Johnson | 20010 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil WarMary P. Ryan | 220Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and PlaceFrank Towers | 251Acknowledgments | 261List of Contributors | 263Index | 265