The Historiography of Victorian Britain and the US Civil War
Journal: Civil War history
Year: 2020

The Historiography of Victorian Britain and the US Civil War David Brown (bio) The influence of the American Civil War within British historiography, by which I refer to the historiography of the Victorian era and of the British Empire in the mid-nineteenth century, is minimal. Of course, Anglo-American and transatlantic historians taking a comparative approach have written extensively on this topic, but this essay confines its analysis to the work of card-carrying historians of British history