LEADER 02418nam 2200445 450 001 9910794131203321 005 20220407041336.0 010 $a0-8139-4438-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011277706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6121445 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011277706 100 $a20200819d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aColossal ambitions $eConfederate planning for a post-Civil War world /$fAdrian Brettle 210 1$aCharlottesville ;$aLondon :$cUniversity of Virginia Press,$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 313 pages) 225 1 $aA nation divided : Studies in the Civil War era 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8139-4437-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Colossal Ambitions explores how leading Confederate thinkers envisioned their postwar nation -- its relationship with the United States, its place in the Americas, and its role in the global order. These thinkers were optimists, ambitious to create a global politics rooted in a specifically Confederate worldview. Regardless of how the war was going, these prominent individuals always found time to plan their future empire and world leaderships and to rationalize contemporary events as steps toward achieving it. The politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants who preached this transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy persuaded many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had, but to gain their future empire. This future vision of world leadership -- in territorial, economic, political, and cultural terms -- provided a vitally important, under-appreciated motivation to fight for an independent Confederate republic"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aNation divided. 607 $aConfederate States of America$xHistory 607 $aConfederate States of America$xPolitics and government 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865 676 $a973.713 700 $aBrettle$b Adrian$f1972-$01577818 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bAzTeS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794131203321 996 $aColossal ambitions$93856702 997 $aUNINA