Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction. Sovereignty and the nation-state in nineteenth-century north America 1
4. I. Making nations
5. 1. The united states from the inside out and the southside north 25
6. 2. Confederation as a hemispheric anomaly: why Canada chose a unique model of sovereignty in the 1860s 36
7. 3. Civil war and nation building in north America, 1848–1867 61
8. 4. 1860s capitalscapes, governing interiors, and the illustration of north American sovereignty 80
9. II. Indigenous polities
10. 5. The long war: sustaining indigenous communities and contesting sovereignties in the civil war south 107
11. 6. Negotiating sovereignty: u.s. and Canadian colonialisms on the northwest plains, 1855–1877 132
12. 7. Indian raids in northern Mexico and the construction of Mexican sovereignty 153
13. III. The complications of the market
14. 8. State, market, and popular sovereignty in agrarian north America: the united states, 1850–1920 177
15. 9. Reconstructing north America: the borderlands of Juan cortina and Louis riel in an age of national consolidation 200
16. 10. City sovereignty in the era of the American civil war 220
17. Conclusion. Continental history and the problem of time and place 251
18. Acknowledgments 261
19. Contributors 263
20. Index 265