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Henry Hotze, Confederate propagandist : selected writings on revolution, recognition, and race / [edited by] Lonnie A. Burnett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hotze, Henry, 1833-1887.
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. 2008
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Propaganda, Confederate.
- Secession--Southern States.
- Secession.
- Racism--Philosophy.
- Racism.
- Journalists--Southern States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Soldiers--Alabama--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Confederate States of America--Politics and government.
- Confederate States of America.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Southern States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- Gobineau, Arthur, comte de, 1816-1882--Political and social views.
- Gobineau, Arthur.
- Hotze, Henry, 1833-1887.
- Hotze, Henry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The life of Henry Hotze encompasses the history of antebellum Mobile, Confederate military recruitment, Civil War diplomacy and international intrigue, and the development of a Darwinian-based effort to find scientific evidence for differences among human "races." When civil war broke out in his adopted country, Hotze enthusiastically assumed the mindset of the young Southern secessionist, serving first as newspaper correspondent and Confederate soldier until the Confederate government selected him as an agent, with instructions to promote the Southern cause in London. There he founded, e
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction: Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist; PART ONE: "A CONSCIOUSNESS OF DOING SOMETHING FINE"; Three Months in the Confederate Army; The CADET Letters to the Mobile Register; PART TWO: "WHAT PREVENTS THE RECOGNITION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES?"; An "Apology" to the Tribune; Henry Hotze's Commission; The "Washington's Birthday" Leader; "The Question of Recognition of the Confederate States"; The Index on Recognition; The Ebb and Flow of Recognition: Diplomatic and Personal Correspondence; A Primer on Southern Society; The Genius of the Editor
- A Plan to Take the Index to AmericaPART THREE: "THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN"; Excerpt from "Analytical Introduction and Copious Historical Notes"; "The Position and Treatment of Women among the Various Races of Men as Proof of Their Moral and Intellectual Diversity"; The Register Reviews Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races; Letters to Gobineau; The Index on Racialism; Appendix: Original Descriptive Roll of the Mobile Cadets, Co. A, Third Alabama Regiment Infantry; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8111-2
- OCLC:
- 424523506
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