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Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century by Aaron Sheehan-Dean (review)

Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century by Aaron Sheehan-Dean... brian schoen, department chair and associate professor of history at Ohio University, is the author of The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. By Aaron Sheehan-Dean. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. Pp. 206. Cloth, $40.00.) In Reckoning with Rebellion, Aaron Sheehan-Dean extends the trans- national turn in Civil War history, moving beyond a solely Atlantic con- text to examine the nineteenth-century meanings of war, insurgency, and rebellion. To contextualize the American Civil War—or, to put it as his subjects debated calling it, the Confederate rebellion—Sheehan-Dean incorporates the examples of Poland’s January Uprising against Imperial Russia in 1863, the Taiping Rebellion in Qing China from 1850 to 1864, and the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion against British control in India. By analyz- ing styles of warfare, such as regular versus guerrilla, and terminology, such as “rebellion” versus “war,” Sheehan-Dean identifies central issues in mid-nineteenth-century thought on warfare and insurgency that residents in the United States and abroad used to assess the many conflicts of the era. These issues, and the way that various observers perceived and situ- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century by Aaron Sheehan-Dean (review)

The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 11 (3) – Sep 1, 2021

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Abstract

brian schoen, department chair and associate professor of history at Ohio University, is the author of The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. By Aaron Sheehan-Dean. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. Pp. 206. Cloth, $40.00.) In Reckoning with Rebellion, Aaron Sheehan-Dean extends the trans- national turn in Civil War history, moving beyond a solely Atlantic con- text to examine the nineteenth-century meanings of war, insurgency, and rebellion. To contextualize the American Civil War—or, to put it as his subjects debated calling it, the Confederate rebellion—Sheehan-Dean incorporates the examples of Poland’s January Uprising against Imperial Russia in 1863, the Taiping Rebellion in Qing China from 1850 to 1864, and the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion against British control in India. By analyz- ing styles of warfare, such as regular versus guerrilla, and terminology, such as “rebellion” versus “war,” Sheehan-Dean identifies central issues in mid-nineteenth-century thought on warfare and insurgency that residents in the United States and abroad used to assess the many conflicts of the era. These issues, and the way that various observers perceived and situ-

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The Journal of the Civil War EraUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Sep 1, 2021

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