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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456380503321

Autore

Jones Howard <1940->

Titolo

Blue and gray diplomacy [[electronic resource] ] : a history of Union and Confederate foreign relations / / Howard Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0449-3

0-8078-9857-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

Littlefield history of the Civil War era

Disciplina

973.7/2

Soggetti

International relations

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1861-1865

Confederate States of America Foreign relations

United States Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations France

France Foreign relations United States

Confederate States of America Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations Confederate States of America

Confederate States of America Foreign relations France

France Foreign relations Confederate States of America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- Republic in peril -- British neutrality on trial -- The Trent and Confederate independence -- Road to recognition -- Union and Confederacy at bay -- The paradox of intervention -- Antietam and emancipation -- Union-Confederate crisis over intervention -- Requiem for Napoleon--and intervention -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.  Jones explores a number of themes, including the international economic and political



dimensions of the war, the North's attempts to block the South from winning foreign recognition as a nation, Napoleon III's meddling in the war and his attempt to restore French power in the New World, and the inability of Europeans to understand the in