Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s

This essay collection presents a transnational history of mid-nineteenth century North America, a time of crisis that forged the continent's political dynamics.

North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the US 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 p...