Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The United States Civil War Era and Sovereignty on the North American Continent
  • 1 Fugitive Slaves, Free Soil, and the Contest over Sovereignty in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1821-1867
  • 2 Inveterate Imperialists: Contested Imperialisms, North American History, and the Coming of the U.S. Civil War
  • 3 Walker to Riel: State Consolidation on the Margins of Empire
  • 4 Reform Wars, Royal Visits, and U.S. Views of Popular Sovereignty in 1860
  • 5 "The Pirates and Their Abettors in Th is Province" Sovereignty, Violence, and Confederate Operations in Britain's Atlantic Colonies, 1863-1865
  • 6 "A Long-Cherished Plan" Detroit and the U.S. Annexation of Canada during the Nineteenth Century
  • 7 From Memphis to Mexico: The U.S. Army's Assertion of Sovereignty during Reconstruction
  • 8 "Hold the Fort" Securing the Soldiers' State in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Conclusion: Law and Order in Nineteenth-Century North America
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index