Colossal ambitions : Confederate planning for a post-Civil War world / / Adrian Brettle

• Autore: Brettle Adrian <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2020; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 313 pages)
• Disciplina: 973.713
• Soggetto geografico: Confederate States of America History; Confederate States of America Politics and government; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Colossal ambitions
• ISBN: 0-8139-4438-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794131203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nation divided.