The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War

1. Introduction: The Electric Chain of Transnational History
Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, Marcus Gräser

Part I. Liberalism, Citizenship, and International Law

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

3. The American Civil War and the Transatlantic Triumph of Volitional Citizenship
Paul Quigley

4. Lincoln as the Great Educator: Opinion and Educative Liberalism in the Civil War Era
Leslie Butler

Part II. Transnational Political Economy and Finance

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

6. International Finance in the Civil War Era
Jay Sexton

Part III. Transnational Discourses on Freedom and Radicalism

7. Uprooted Emancipators: Transatlantic Abolitionism and the Politics of Belonging
Mischa Honeck

8. Africa and the American Civil War: The Geopolitics of Freedom and the Production of Commons
Andrew Zimmerman

Part IV. Nation Building and Social Revolutions: The American Civil War and Italy

9. The United States, Italy, and the Tribulations of the Liberal Nation
Tiziano Bonazzi

10. Nation-Building, Civil War, and Social Revolution in the Confederate South and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1860–1865
Enrico Dal Lago

Part V. Race and Nationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean During the American Civil War Era

11. Race and Revolution: The Confederacy, Mexico, and the Problem of Southern Nationalism
Andre M. Fleche

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

13. Reconstructing Plantation Dominance in British Honduras: Race and Subjection in the Age of Emancipation
Zach Sell

Nyckelord: History, US History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Military, Social History, Comparative Politics