| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 308 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
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Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays highlighting the war not only as a North American conflict but as a global one. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Political aspects.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Social aspects. |
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War -- Causes. |
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United States. |
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HISTORY. |
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United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
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Regions & Countries -- Americas. |
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History & Archaeology. |
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United States -- General. |
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
| Chronological Term |
1861-1865 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic book.
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| Added Author |
Gleeson, David T., editor, author.
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Lewis, Simon, 1960- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Civil War as global conflict. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2014] 9781611173253 (DLC) 2013036702 (OCoLC)862097018 |
| ISBN |
9781611173260 (electronic book) |
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1611173264 (electronic book) |
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9781611173253 (hardbound ; alkaline paper) |
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1611173256 (hardbound ; alkaline paper) |
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