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The War Worth Fighting: Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency and Civil War America ed. by Stephen D. Engle (review)

Ostensibly an “international” history, it focuses almost entirely on northern Atlantic European nations. The Pacific world, South Asia, the Middle East, South America, and Africa are kept in the margins or off the page. The oddest omission is Liberia, which the United States recognized for the first time during the Civil War. U.S.-Liberia relations are crucial to African and African American history in this period. Doyle credits emancipation in the United States with helping speed Cuba and Brazil toward abolition in the decades following the war, but he gives too little attention to how U.S. emancipation stirred rebellion among enslaved people of African descent in those nations. Finally, readers are left to wonder about the fate of the onetime partnership between European and U.S. champions of republicanism. When the United States attempted to annex Santo Domingo in 1869, a move denounced by many as blatant selfinterested imperialism, or when it turned its back on the Paris Commune in 1871, thus rejecting a cause supported by Garibaldi, did the beacon of the United States dim in the eyes of those who had seen the country as the “last best hope” for republicanism?