Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America?s Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Union and Secession in the Family of Nations 1 Don H. Doyle Part 1. The Problem of Secession “The Morality of Secession” 19 Christopher Wellman “Secession and Civil War” 37 David Armitage “Lincoln, the Constitution, and Secession” 56 Peter Radan “Ethics of Secession and Political Mobilization in Quebec” 76 Margaret Moore Part 2. The Case of the American South “Lincoln, the Collapse of Deep South Moderation, and the Triumph of Secession: A South Carolina Congressman’s Moment of Truth” 97 Charles B. Dew “Proslavery Calculations and the Value of Southern Disunion” 115 Robert E. Bonner “‘How a Free People Conduct a Long War’: Sustaining Opposition to Secession in the American Civil War” 132 Susan-Mary Grant “Secessionists in an Age of Secession: The Slave South in Transatlantic Perspective” 151 Paul Quigley [vi] contents “The Origins of the Antimodern South: Romantic Nationalism and the Secession Movement in the American South” 174 Frank Towers Part 3. Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico “Texas and the Spread of That Troublesome Secessionist Spirit through the Gulf of Mexico Basin” 193 Andrés Reséndez “The Brief, Glorious History of the Yucatecan Republic: Secession and Violence in Southeast Mexico, 1836–1848” 214 Terry Rugeley Part 4. European Separatism “Secessionist Conflicts in Europe” 237 Bruno Coppieters “By the Force of Arms: Violence and Morality in Secessionist Conflict” 259 Aleksandar Pavković “Structure, Agency, and Secessionism in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet States” 277 Paul Kubicek “‘Our Cause Was Foredoomed to Failure’: Secession in Germany and the United States” 296 Stefan Zahlmann Part 5. The Middle East, Asia, and Africa “Common Sense, or A Step Pregnant with Enormous Consequences: Some Thoughts on the Possible Secession of Iraqi Kurdistan” 319 Peter Sluglett “Nationalism, Separatism, and Neoliberal Globalism: A Review of Africa and the Quest for Self-Determination since the 1940s” 338 Raphael Chijioke Njoku contents [vii] “Did Abraham Lincoln Oppose Taiwan’s Secession from China?” 361 Alan M. Wachman Contributors 381 Index 385 This page intentionally left blank ...