Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Howard Jones
Abstract
This examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil. The book explores a number of themes, including the international economic and political dimensions of the war, the North's attempts to block the South from winning foreign recognition as a nation, Napoleon III's meddling in the war and his attempt to restore French power in the New World, and the inability of Europeans to understand the interrelated nature of sl ... More
Keywords: Civil War, North, South, Napoleon III, New World, Europeans, slavery, union
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780807833490 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: July 2014 | DOI:10.5149/9780807898574_jones |
