Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas

Evan C. Rothera is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. He is coeditor of The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans.

"This book is a signal contribution to our understanding of the intertwined politics of the New World during a critical era of global history defined by the clash between the fragile forces of democracy and the counterrevolutionary agents of monarchy and hereditary privilege."--Patrick J. Kelly, associate professor of history, University of Texas at San Antonio "Evan C. Rothera has cast the familiar history of the US Civil War into a new framework that encompasses Latin America. He gives readers an exciting, multifaceted view of the tumultuous decades that shook the Americas from Argentina to Mexico and the United States."--Don H. Doyle, author of The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War "In this landmark study, Rothera makes a powerful case that to understand the US Civil War requires an intimate grasp of a nineteenth-century Western Hemisphere at war with itself. He tells a compelling story of Pan-American conflict and cooperation, as Argentina, Mexico, and the United States all shared in what Abraham Lincoln deemed humankind's 'eternal struggle' between the forces of liberty and despotism."--Andrew F. Lang, author of In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America