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.