The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic rim /edited by Robert E. May.

The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic rim /edited by Robert E. May. - revisedition. edition. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / History and mythology: the crisis over British intervention in the Civil War / Pressure from without: African Americans, British public opinion, and Civil War diplomacy / Napoleon is coming! Maximilian is coming?: The international history of the Civil War in the Caribbean Basin / "The whole family of man": Lincoln and the last best hope abroad / Robert E. May -- Howard Jones -- R.J.M. Blackett -- Thomas Schoonover -- James M. McPherson.

Considers why the Confederacy never received foreign aid and traces the Civil War's impact on European and Latin nations and dependencies.



9780813048680


Electronic Books.

E469 / .U556 2013