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The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction: The Electric Chain of Transnational History

    • Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, Marcus Gräser
    Pages 1-12
  3. Transnational Political Economy and Finance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
  4. Transnational Discourses on Freedom and Radicalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
  5. Nation Building and Social Revolutions: The American Civil War and Italy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
  6. Race and Nationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean During the American Civil War Era

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 243-253

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.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany

    Jörg Nagler

  • University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

    Don H. Doyle

  • Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Marcus Gräser

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".

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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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