Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Don H. Doyle, Introduction: Union and Secession in the Family of Nations
Part 1. The Problem of Secession
Christopher Wellman, "The Morality of Secession"
David Armitage, "Secession and Civil War"
Peter Radan, "Lincoln, the Constitution, and Secession"
Margaret Moore, "Ethics of Secession and Political Mobilization in Quebec"
Part 2. The Case of the American South
Charles B. Dew, "Lincoln, the Collapse of Deep South Moderation, and the Triumph of Secession: A South Carolina Congressman's Moment of Truth"
Robert E. Bonner, "Proslavery Calculations and the Value of Southern Disunion"
Susan-Mary Grant, "‘How a Free People Conduct a Long War': Sustaining Opposition to Secession in the American Civil War"
Paul Quigley, "Secessionists in an Age of Secession: The Slave South in Transatlantic Perspective"
Frank Towers, "The Origins of the Antimodern South: Romantic Nationalism and the Secession Movement in the American South"
Part 3. Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico
Andrés Reséndez, "Texas and the Spread of That Troublesome Secessionist Spirit through the Gulf of Mexico Basin"
Terry Rugeley, "The Brief, Glorious History of the Yucatecan Republic: Secession and Violence in Southeast Mexico, 1836-1848"
Part 4. European Separatism
Bruno Coppieters, "Secessionist Conflicts in Europe"
Aleksandar Pavkovic, "By the Force of Arms: Violence and Morality in Secessionist Conflict"
Paul Kubicek, "Structure, Agency, and Secessionism in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet States"
Stefan Zahlmann, "‘Our Cause was Foredoomed to Failure': Secession in Germany and the United States"
Part 5. The Middle East, Asia, Africa
Peter Sluglett, "Common Sense, or A Step Pregnant with Enormous Consequences: Some Thoughts on the Possible Secession of Iraqi Kurdistan"
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, "Nationalism, Separatism, and Neoliberal Globalism: A Review of Africa and the Quest for Self-Determination since the 1940s"
Alan M. Wachman, "Did Abraham Lincoln Oppose Taiwan's Secession from China?"
Contributors
Index