Overview
- Examines the American Civil War from a truly global perspective, viewing the conflict for its impact on nation-building worldwide
- Features some of the leading experts of the Civil War from the US and Europe
- Addresses issues on liberalism, citizenship and international law, transnational political economy and finance, transnational discourses on freedom and radicalism, nation building and social revolutions among others
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series (PMSTH)
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About this book
This volume of pioneering essays brings together an impressive array of well-established and emerging historians from Europe and the United States whose common endeavor is to situate America’s Civil War within the wider framework of global history. These essays view the American conflict through a fascinating array of topical prisms that will take readers beyond the familiar themes of U. S. Civil War history. They will also take readers beyond the national boundaries that typically confine our understanding of this momentous conflict. The history of America’s Civil War has typically been interpreted within a familiar national narrative focusing on the internal discord between North and South over the future of slavery in the United States.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Liberalism, Citizenship, and International Law
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Transnational Political Economy and Finance
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Transnational Discourses on Freedom and Radicalism
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Nation Building and Social Revolutions: The American Civil War and Italy
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Race and Nationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean During the American Civil War Era
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jörg Nagler is Senior Professor of North American History at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. He has written extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history, with a particular focus on war and society, comparative and transnational history. His publications include On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 (co-edited with Stig Förster).
Don H. Doyle is McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, USA. He is the author of The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War and several other publications dealing with the US and the world during the nineteenth century.
Marcus Gräser is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, where he has taught since 2011. His main areas of interest are American and Central European History (in comparative perspective). He is presently preparing the volume on North America in the series "Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte".
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War
Editors: Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, Marcus Gräser
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40268-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40267-3Published: 12 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82063-7Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40268-0Published: 05 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6273
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6281
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 253
Topics: US History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Military, Social History, Comparative Politics