The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War / edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
Description
viii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.

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Editor
Series
  • Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world [More in this series]
  • The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic world
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Why civil war? : the politics of slavery in comparative perspective : the United States, Cuba, and Brazil / Edward B. Rugemer
  • King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp
  • "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle
  • "Two irreconcilable peoples?" : ethnic nationalism in the Confederacy / James M. McPherson
  • Proving their loyalty to the republic : English immigrants and the American Civil War / David T. Gleeson
  • "A new expression of that entente cordiale"? : Russian-American relations and the fleet episode of 1863 / Alexander Noonan
  • The Rhine River : the impact of the German states on transatlantic diplomacy / Niels Eichhorn
  • Lex Talionis in the U.S. Civil War : retaliation and the limits of atrocity / Aaron Sheehan-Dean
  • Fulfilling "the president's duty to communicate" : the Civil War and the creation of the Foreign relations of the United States series / Aaron W. Marrs
  • "They had heard of emancipation and the enfranchisement of their race" : the African American colonists of Samaná, reconstruction, and the state of Santo Domingo / Christopher Wilkins
  • Nurse as icon : Florence Nightingale's impact on women in the American Civil War / Jane E. Schultz
  • Race, romance, and "the spectacle of unknowing" in Gone with the wind : a South African response / Lesley Marx
  • Coda : roundtable on memory / O. Vernon Burton, Edmund L. Drago, W. Eric Emerson, Joseph McGill, Theodore N. Rosengarten, Amanda Foreman.
ISBN
  • 9781611173253 (hardbound : alk. paper)
  • 1611173256 (hardbound : alk. paper)
LCCN
2013036702
OCLC
862097018
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