Title: The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /
Authors: Gleeson, David T.,; Lewis, Simon, 1960-; Gleeson, David T.,; Lewis, Simon, 1960-,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Buddhism and politics; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Social aspects.; War Causes; United States History Causes.; United States History Political aspects.; United States History Social aspects.; United States History Influence.; United States
Abstract: In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational concerns. The book, while addressing the origins of the Civil War, places the struggle over slavery and sovereignty in the United States in the context of other conflicts in the Western hemisphere. Additionally Gleeson and Lewis offer an analysis of the impact of the war and its results overseas.--
Contents: Why civil war? : the politics of slavery in comparative perspective : the United States, Cuba, and Brazil / Edward B. Rugemer -- King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp -- "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle -- "Two irreconcilable peoples?" : ethnic nationalism in the Confederacy / James M. McPherson -- Proving their loyalty to the republic : English immigrants and the American Civil War / David T. Gleeson -- "A new expression of that entente cordiale"? : Russian-American relations and the fleet episode of 1863 / Alexander Noonan -- The Rhine River : the impact of the German states on transatlantic diplomacy / Niels Eichhorn -- Lex Talionis in the U.S. Civil War : retaliation and the limits of atrocity / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Fulfilling "the president's duty to communicate" : the Civil War and the creation of the Foreign relations of the United States series / Aaron W. Marrs -- "They had heard of emancipation and the enfranchisement of their race" : the African American colonists of Samaná, reconstruction, and the state of Santo Domingo / Christopher Wilkins -- Nurse as icon : Florence Nightingale's impact on women in the American Civil War / Jane E. Schultz -- Race, romance, and "the spectacle of unknowing" in Gone with the wind : a South African response / Lesley Marx -- Coda : roundtable on memory / O. Vernon Burton, Edmund L. Drago, W. Eric Emerson, Joseph McGill, Theodore N. Rosengarten, Amanda Foreman.