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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
A nation divided : studies in the Civil War era
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Nation divided.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Colossal Ambitions explores how leading Confederate thinkers envisioned their postwar nation -- its relationship with the United States, its place in the Americas, and its role in the global order. These thinkers were optimists, ambitious to create a global politics rooted in a specifically Confederate worldview. Regardless of how the war was going, these prominent individuals always found time to plan their future empire and world leaderships and to rationalize contemporary events as steps toward achieving it. The politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants who preached this transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy persuaded many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had, but to gain their future empire. This future vision of world leadership -- in territorial, economic, political, and cultural terms -- provided a vitally important, under-appreciated motivation to fight for an independent Confederate republic"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Vast World They Wanted -- 1. What Would an Independent South Mean for the World in 1861? -- 2. How War Changed the Future Nation: April 1861 to February 1862 -- 3. Self-Sufficiency at Home and Self-Assertion Abroad: Confederate Ambitions for the Remainder of 1862 -- 4. Renewal through Adversity: Confederates Reboot Their Ambitions in 1863 -- 5. A Conservative Future: January to the Fall of 1864 -- 6. The Sacrifice Cannot Be in Vain: The Future in a Transformed World, November 1864 to May 1865 |
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Epilogue: What Are You Going to Do? -- Notes -- Index -- Recent books in the series |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Confederate States of America -- History.
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Confederate States of America -- Politics and government.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
| Chronological Term |
1861-1865 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brettle, Adrian, 1972- Colossal ambitions Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. 9780813944371 (DLC) 2020000762 |
| ISBN |
0813944384 |
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9780813944388 (electronic book) |
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9780813944371 (cloth) |
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