Introduction: the Atlantic world and the crisis of the 1860s / Don H. Doyle -- The Civil War and U.S. world power / Jay Sexton -- Wrapping the world in fire: the interventionist crisis in the Civil War / Howard Jones -- The cat's paw: Confederate ambitions in Latin America / Pat…
This volume takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the…
"Position[s] the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary independence movements, and slave uprisings--all taking place in the tumul…
