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King Cotton diplomacy : foreign relations of the Confederate States of America / Frank Lawrence Owsley Sr.
- Title
- King Cotton diplomacy : foreign relations of the Confederate States of America / Frank Lawrence Owsley Sr.
- Author
- Owsley, Frank Lawrence, 1890-1956.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
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| Text | Request in advance | E488 .O85 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Owsley, Harriet Chappell, 1901-1999.
- Description
- xxv, 614 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
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- History
- Note
- Originally published: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c1931.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-575) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The foundation of Confederate diplomacy -- The first envoys of the cotton kingdom -- The troubled waters of Mexico -- The cotton famine -- Confederate propaganda and public opinion -- Mason and Slidell's first attack on the legality of the blockade -- The ineffectiveness of the blockade -- Two preliminary moves -- Formal demands for recognition -- The climax of intervention -- Confederate finances abroad -- The building of the Confederate navy in Europe -- The anticlimax of 1863 -- The diplomatic break with England in 1863 -- Mann's mission to Rome -- The Mexican pawn, 1862-65 -- The Kenner mission -- Why Europe did not intervene.
- ISBN
- 9780817355265 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 081735526X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008027198
- OCLC
- 229033071
- SCSB-10791581
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library