American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s

Book Overview

American Civil Wars 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 Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary independence movements, and slave uprisings--all taking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469631091
• ISBN13: 9781469631097
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"