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American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s, edited by Don H. Doyle, is now available for purchase from the University of North Carolina Press.

Reviews:

• "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
• "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

Contributors:

• Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina
• Anne Eller, Yale University
• Richard Huzzey, University of Liverpool
• Howard Jones, University of Alabama
• Patrick J. Kelly, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Universidade de São Paulo
• Erika Pani, Colegio de México
• Hilda Sabato, Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Stève Sainlaude, Université Paris IV Sorbonne
• Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University
• Jay Sexton, Oxford University