The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /
The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /
edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis.
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (viii, 308 pages) : illustrations.
- The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Why civil war? : the politics of slavery in comparative perspective : the United States, Cuba, and Brazil / King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / "Two irreconcilable peoples?" : ethnic nationalism in the Confederacy / Proving their loyalty to the republic : English immigrants and the American Civil War / "A new expression of that entente cordiale"? : Russian-American relations and the fleet episode of 1863 / The Rhine River : the impact of the German states on transatlantic diplomacy / Lex Talionis in the U.S. Civil War : retaliation and the limits of atrocity / Fulfilling "the president's duty to communicate" : the Civil War and the creation of the Foreign relations of the United States series / "They had heard of emancipation and the enfranchisement of their race" : the African American colonists of Samaná, reconstruction, and the state of Santo Domingo / Nurse as icon : Florence Nightingale's impact on women in the American Civil War / Race, romance, and "the spectacle of unknowing" in Gone with the wind : a South African response / Coda : roundtable on memory / Edward B. Rugemer -- Matthew Karp -- Hugh Dubrulle -- James M. McPherson -- David T. Gleeson -- Alexander Noonan -- Niels Eichhorn -- Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Aaron W. Marrs -- Christopher Wilkins -- Jane E. Schultz -- Lesley Marx -- O. Vernon Burton, Edmund L. Drago, W. Eric Emerson, Joseph McGill, Theodore N. Rosengarten, Amanda Foreman.
9781611173260
2013036702
Electronic Books.
E459 / .C585 2014
Includes bibliographies and index.
Why civil war? : the politics of slavery in comparative perspective : the United States, Cuba, and Brazil / King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / "Two irreconcilable peoples?" : ethnic nationalism in the Confederacy / Proving their loyalty to the republic : English immigrants and the American Civil War / "A new expression of that entente cordiale"? : Russian-American relations and the fleet episode of 1863 / The Rhine River : the impact of the German states on transatlantic diplomacy / Lex Talionis in the U.S. Civil War : retaliation and the limits of atrocity / Fulfilling "the president's duty to communicate" : the Civil War and the creation of the Foreign relations of the United States series / "They had heard of emancipation and the enfranchisement of their race" : the African American colonists of Samaná, reconstruction, and the state of Santo Domingo / Nurse as icon : Florence Nightingale's impact on women in the American Civil War / Race, romance, and "the spectacle of unknowing" in Gone with the wind : a South African response / Coda : roundtable on memory / Edward B. Rugemer -- Matthew Karp -- Hugh Dubrulle -- James M. McPherson -- David T. Gleeson -- Alexander Noonan -- Niels Eichhorn -- Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Aaron W. Marrs -- Christopher Wilkins -- Jane E. Schultz -- Lesley Marx -- O. Vernon Burton, Edmund L. Drago, W. Eric Emerson, Joseph McGill, Theodore N. Rosengarten, Amanda Foreman.
9781611173260
2013036702
Electronic Books.
E459 / .C585 2014