pt. 1. The problem of secession
The morality of secession / Christopher Wellman
Secession and civil war / David Armitage
Lincoln, the Constitution, and secession / Peter Radan
Ethics of secession and political mobilization in Quebec / Margaret Moore
pt. 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 / Charles B. Dew
Proslavery calculations and the value of Southern disunion / Robert E. Bonner
How a free people conduct a long war : sustaining opposition to secession in the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant
Secessionists in an age of secession : the slave South in transatlantic perspective / Paul Quigley
The origins of the antimodern South : romantic nationalism and the secession movement in the American South / Frank Towers
pt. 3. Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico
Texas and the spread of that troublesome secessionist spirit through the Gulf of Mexico Basin / Andrés Reséndez
The brief, glorious history of the Yucatecan Republic : secession and violence in southeast Mexico, 1836-1848 / Terry Rugeley
pt. 4. European separatism
Secessionist conflicts in Europe / Bruno Coppieters
By the force of arms : violence and morality in secessionist conflict / Aleksandar Pavkovic
Structure, agency, and secessionism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states / Paul Kubicek
"Our cause was foredoomed to failure" : secession in Germany and the United States / Stefan Zahlmann
pt. 5. The Middle East, Asia, Africa
Common sense, or, A step pregnant with enormous consequences : some thoughts on the possible secession of Iraqi Kurdistan / Peter Sluglett
Nationalism, separatism, and neoliberal globalism : a review of Africa and the quest for self-determination since the 1940s / Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Did Abraham Lincoln oppose Taiwan's secession from China? / Alan M. Wachman.
Secession as an international phenomenon : from America's Civil War to contemporary separatist movements. ISBN 9780820337128. Published by University of Georgia Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.