Description: In this innovative global history of the American Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean compares and contrasts the American experience with other civil and national conflicts that happened at nearly the same time--the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Polish Insurrection of 1863, and China's Taiping Rebellion.
Brief description: Aaron Sheehan-Dean is the Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War and the editor of The Cambridge History of the American Civil War.
Review Quotes: "Sheehan-Dean, in a pathfinding monograph, seeks to understand the American Civil War in the context of global conflict and, in doing so, expands our understanding of how the war was fought, how its participants understood similar foreign insurrections, and why ours turned out the way it did."--America's Civil War