America in the world

Introduction : Reconstruction and world democracy -- Part I. Martyrdom. Tributes of the nations -- Retribution -- Part II. American for Americans. The Mexican lesson -- Russia exits -- Home rule for Canada -- Avanza Lincoln -- Part III. Europe's democratic reveille. British democracy -- Spain's democratic moment -- The last monarch of France -- The fall of Rome -- Coda : The undoing

"A ... history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas. ... [This title] looks beyond post-Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln's assassination set off a dramatic international reaction that drove European empires out of the Americas, hastened the end of slavery in Latin America, and ignited a host of democratic reforms in Europe"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket