Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Union and Secession in the Family of Nations -- Part 1. The Problem of Secession -- "The Morality of Secession" -- "Secession and Civil War" -- "Lincoln, the Constitution, and Secession" -- "Ethics of Secession and Political Mobilization in Quebec" -- 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" -- "Proslavery Calculations and the Value of Southern Disunion" -- "'How a Free People Conduct a Long War': Sustaining Opposition to Secession in the American Civil War" -- "Secessionists in an Age of Secession: The Slave South in Transatlantic Perspective" -- "The Origins of the Antimodern South: Romantic Nationalism and the Secession Movement in the American South" -- Part 3. Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico -- "Texas and the Spread of That Troublesome Secessionist Spirit through the Gulf of Mexico Basin" -- "The Brief, Glorious History of the Yucatecan Republic: Secession and Violence in Southeast Mexico, 1836-1848" -- Part 4. European Separatism -- "Secessionist Conflicts in Europe" -- "By the Force of Arms: Violence and Morality in Secessionist Conflict" -- "Structure, Agency, and Secessionism in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet States" -- "'Our Cause Was Foredoomed to Failure': Secession in Germany and the United States" -- 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" -- "Nationalism, Separatism, and Neoliberal Globalism: A Review of Africa and the Quest for Self-Determination since the 1940s" -- "Did Abraham Lincoln Oppose Taiwan's Secession from China?" -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q.

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