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France and the American Civil War : a diplomatic history / Steve Sainlaude ; translated by Jessica Edwards ; foreword by Don H. Doyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sainlaude, Stève, author.
- Series:
- Civil War America (Series)
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--Foreign relations--1852-1870.
- France.
- United States--Foreign relations--1861-1865.
- United States.
- Confederate States of America--Foreign relations--France.
- Confederate States of America.
- United States--Foreign relations--France--History--19th century.
- France--Foreign relations--Confederate States of America.
- France--Foreign relations--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- France's involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power's role remain little understood. Here, Stève Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict. Drawing on archival sources that have been neglected by scholars up to this point, Sainlaude overturns many commonly held assumptions about French relations with the Union and the Confederacy. As Sainlaude demonstrates, no major European power had a deeper stake in the outcome of the conflict than France.
- Contents:
- The French position
- The implementation of neutrality
- The emperor gets involved in the war
- The Entente Cordiale and American policy
- France's view of the South
- Myth and reality
- The weight of the "peculiar institution" in diplomatic relations
- Napoleon III's "grand design" and the Confederacy
- The future lies in union
- The future of the disunited states
- The South, a trade partner?
- The imbalance of power.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Contains:
- Sainlaude, Stève. France et la Confédération sudiste, 1861-1865. English
- ISBN:
- 9798890851253
- 9798890851260
- 9781469649962
- 1469649969
- 9781469649955
- 1469649950
- OCLC:
- 1084655204
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