United States Reconstruction Across the Americas

Historians have examined the American Civil War and its aftermath for more than a century, yet little work has situated this important era in a global context. Contributors to this volume broaden the scope of Reconstruction by viewing it not as an insular process but as an international phenomenon. Here, three leading international scholars explore how emancipation, nationhood and nationalism, and the spread of market capitalism--issues central to the period in the United States--were interwoven with global patterns of political, social, and economic change. Rafael Marquese explores the integrated trajectories of slavery in the United States and Brazil, tracing the connections, interactions, and transformations of the coffee and cotton economies in both countries. Don Doyle discusses how Secretary of State William Seward eliminated a possible Confederate revival and hostile European presence supported by Mexico's Maximilian regime. Edward Rugemer reconsiders how Jamaica's Morant Bay Rebellion influenced Reconstruction by demonstrating that emancipation without citizenship, political rights, or economic opportunities can have violent consequences. This volume suggests new discussions about how the Civil War reshaped the United States's relationship to the world and how large-scale international developments influenced the country's transition from slavery to freedom. Contributors: William A. Link Don H. Doyle Rafael Marquese Edward Rugemer A volume in the series Frontiers of the American South, edited by William A. Link

Author: William a. Link
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 07/02/2019
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780813056418

About the Author
William A. Link, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida, is the author or editor of several books, including Southern Crucible: The Making of an American Region and Links: My Family in American History, as well as coeditor of The American South and the Atlantic World, Creating and Consuming the American South, and Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South.