Introduction: the Atlantic world and the crisis of the 1860s / Don H. Doyle
The Civil War and U.S. world power / Jay Sexton
Wrapping the world in fire: the interventionist crisis in the Civil War / Howard Jones
The cat's paw: Confederate ambitions in Latin America / Patrick J. Kelly
Manifest dominion: the British Empire and the crises of the Americas in the 1860s / Richard Huzzey
France's grand design and the Confederacy / Steve Sainlaude
From aggression to crisis: the Spanish Empire in the 1860s / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Dominican civil war, slavery, and Spanish annexation, 1844-1865 / Anne Eller
Juárez vs Maximiliano: Mexico's experiment with monarchy / Erika Pani
Arms and republican politics in Spanish America: the critical 1860s / Hilda Sabato
Cuba, the Atlantic crisis of the 1860s, and the road to abolition / Matt D. Childs
The Civil War in the United States and the crisis of slavery in Brazil / Rafael Marquese.