Continent in Crisis by Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Alice... - 9781531501280

Continent in CrisisThe U.S. Civil War in North America\nAuthor(s): Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Alice Baumgartner, Beau D. Cleland, Susan-Mary Grant, Amy Greenberg, John Craig Hammond, John W. Quist, Andrew L. Slap, Jewel L. Spangler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531501280, 978-1531501280\nSynopsis\nWritten by leading historians of the midnineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the [url] 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.\n As the United States went through its Civil War and Reconstruction, Mexic.