CONTENTS

                         List of Illustrations

                         Time Line of Key Events, 1860–1870

                         Introduction: American Crisis, Global Struggle

PART I

ONLY A CIVIL WAR?

CHAPTER   1    Garibaldi’s Question

CHAPTER   2    We Are a Nation

CHAPTER   3    We Will Wrap the World in Flames

PART II

THE AMERICAN QUESTION

CHAPTER   4    The Republican Experiment

CHAPTER   5    The Empires Return

CHAPTER   6    Foreign Translations

CHAPTER   7    Foreign Legions

PART III

LIBERTY’S WAR

CHAPTER   8    The Latin Strategy

CHAPTER   9    Garibaldi’s Answer

CHAPTER 10    Union and Liberty

CHAPTER 11    The Unspeakable Dilemma

CHAPTER 12    Shall Not Perish

                         Coda: Republican Risorgimento

                         Acknowledgments

                         Abbreviations

                         Notes

                         Index