Remaking North American Sovereignty

Jewel L. Spangler (Edited By) Jewel L. Spangler is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century (2008) and co-editor of Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham, 2020). Her current project is a microhistory titled “The Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811 in History and Memory.” Frank Towers (Edited By) Frank Towers is Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (2004) as well as co-editor of anthologies including The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress (2011); Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (2015); and Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham, 2020).

Introduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in

Nineteenth-Century North America

Frank Towers | 1

Part I: Making Nations

1 The United States from the Inside Out and

the Southside North

Steven Hahn | 25

2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada

Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s

Andrew Smith | 36

3 Civil War and Nation Building in

North America, 1848–1867

Pablo Mijangos y González | 61

4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors,

and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty

Robert Bonner | 90

Part II: Indigenous Polities

5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities

and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South

Jane Dinwoodie | 107

6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms

on the Northwest Plains, 1855–1877

Ryan Hall | 132

7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction

of Mexican Sovereignty

Marcela Terrazas y Basante | 153

Part III: The Complications of the Market

8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North

America: Th e United States, 1850–1920

Christopher Clark | 177

9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina

and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation

Benjamin H. Johnson | 200

10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War

Mary P. Ryan | 220

Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place

Frank Towers | 251

Acknowledgments | 261

List of Contributors | 263

Index | 265