The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Electric Chain of Transnational History

Chapter 2 Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Seas?: Civil War Statecraft and the Liberal Quest for Oceanic Order

Chapter 3 The American Civil War and the Transatlantic Triumph of Volitional Citizenship

Chapter 4 Lincoln as the Great Educator: Opinion and Educative Liberalism in the Civil War Era

Chapter 5 Southern Wealth, Global Profits: Cotton, Economic Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War

Chapter 7 Uprooted Emancipators: Transatlantic Abolitionism and the Politics of Belonging

Chapter 8 Africa and the American Civil War: The Geopolitics of Freedom and the Production of Commons

Chapter 9 The United States, Italy, and the Tribulations of the Liberal Nation

Chapter 10 Nation-Building, Civil War, and Social Revolution in the Confederate South and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1860–1865

Chapter 11 Race and Revolution: The Confederacy, Mexico, and the Problem of Southern Nationalism

Chapter 12 Tocqueville’s Prophecy: The United States and the Caribbean, 1850–1871

Chapter 13 Reconstructing Plantation Dominance in British Honduras: Race and Subjection in the Age of Emancipation