Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870 Jeffrey Zvengrowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zvengrowski, Jeffrey, 1985- author.

Series:

Conflicting worlds.

Conflicting worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White supremacy movements.

Slavery.

Politics and government.

Political and social views.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Bonapartism.

Slavery--United States--History--19th century.

White supremacy movements--United States--History--19th century.

Bonapartism--Southern States.

United States--Confederate States of America.

United States.

Southern States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Confederate States of America--Politics and government.

Confederate States of America.

Southern States--Politics and government--1775-1865.

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873--Influence.

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Political and social views.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages).

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2020.

Summary:

"In his highly innovative study of Confederate political theory, Jeffrey Zvengrowski explains the American Civil War in a new way by arguing that Jefferson Davis and the faction of Confederate leaders who supported him saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America. As such, they saw themselves as struggling not so much for slavery directly, but rather for equality among whites and for white supremacy. And they believed that they were fighting a Republican Party coalition that stood for inequality among whites by means of racial equality or racial equality by means of universal equality. This bloc of the Confederate leadership also wanted to build an industrial nation-state capable of waging Napoleonic warfare with large conscripted armies, and they insisted that state's rights did not mean states should inhibit the national government from exercising such delegated powers as building militarily useful infrastructure. They expected to receive support from many northern Democrats and the Bonapartists of Napoleon III's France, each of whom espoused white equality and supremacy even though they both disliked slavery as an institution more than pro-Davis Confederates. Anglophile anti-Davis Confederates, in contrast, advocated inequality among whites, favored radical state's rights inimical to energetic government at any level, and supported theories of slavery that were hostile to white rule without it. Preferring guerilla to Napoleonic warfare, they hoped to receive support from Britain by asserting that southern plantations were akin to romanticized British aristocratic estates; and that the Confederacy would happily become a de facto British agricultural colony"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The origins of the pro-Bonaparte democratic tradition

John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis's pro-Bonaparte democratic mentor

Jefferson Davis as the "Calhoun of Mississippi," 1844-52

Jefferson Davis and the "true democrats" in power, 1852-60

Jefferson Davis and the rise of Napoleon III's France

Pro-Bonaparte democrats of the 1850s South and Jefferson Davis's Confederacy

White supremacy and equality among whites in the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis's Confederacy and democrats in the Union

Jefferson Davis and Confederate overtures to Napoleon III's France

Jefferson Davis's anti-British and pro-Bonaparte Confederacy

The disillusionment of the pro-Davis Confederates, 1864-65

The demise of the pro-Bonaparte democratic ideological tradition, 1865-70.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807172308

0807172308

9780807172292

0807172294

OCLC:

1128380347