American Civil Wars

“An utterly fascinating set of essays, a fine collection of cutting edge international scholarship examining the political and societal reverberations of the American Civil War. . . . Highly recommended reading for any student of the North-South conflict.” — Andrew Wagenhoffer, Civil War Books and Authors

“For those with any interest in the history of international relations, give American Civil Wars a shot.” — Civil War News

“An excellent thought piece, forcing historians to look beyond the narrow confines of the nation-state to place the Civil War into a global framework.” — The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

“Offers the reader a richer understanding of the hemispheric context in which the Civil War was fought.”—The Journal of the Civil War Era

“A welcome contribution to the historiography of the 1860s that justifies its title and establishes that a conflict so associated with the United States over the fate of slavery and concepts of republican institutions was not unique to the United States but also extended to Latin America and Western Europe.”—The Journal of Southern History

“The strongest aspects of this work emerge from the connections across the essays. The underlying contests between republicanism and monarchy, freedom and slavery, shine through in each work. . . . This volume will help to familiarize American Civil War historians to the global implications of the conflict and the ripple effects of Union and Confederate diplomatic efforts. . . . It deserves a place on the shelf of any scholar of the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.”—H-Net Reviews

“By lifting the U.S. Civil War out of the usual nationalist frameworks, American Civil Wars accomplishes the seemingly impossible feat of saying something new about the U.S. Civil War. Don H. Doyle has curated a collection of essays that both challenges and expands our understanding of the war and positions it in a much-needed global context.” — Gregory P. Downs, author of Declarations of Dependence

“The sesquicentennial of the Civil War era has focused extensively on the national story, but this excellent volume helps correct that overemphasis by expanding greatly our knowledge of the war beyond the United States. Indeed, the essays here clearly show that one cannot understand the conflict itself and its full implications unless one examines it in hemispheric and transatlantic context.” — David Gleeson, author of The Green and the Gray