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CAUTION AND COOPERATION
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR IN BRITISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS |
| By: |
Phillip E. Myers, Mary Ann Heiss (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
087338945X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780873389457 |
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| Publisher: |
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2008 |
| Series: |
New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
Focuses on works that expand the parameters of US foreign relations. This work also focuses on such areas as identity formation and projection, borderlands studies, comparative history, and cultural transfer. It offers a provocative reinterpretation of Civil War - era diplomacy. |
| Synopsis: |
This series focuses on works that expand the parameters of U.S. foreign relations. Chronologically broad and topically diverse, it is designed to further the internationalization - indeed, globalization - of the field by publishing a wide variety of innovative books, including interdisciplinary studies, that place the United States within a larger, transnational context. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to, identity formation and projection, borderlands studies, comparative history, and cultural transfer.This book offers a provocative reinterpretation of Civil War - era diplomacy. It has long been a mainstay in historical literature that the Civil War had a deleterious effect on Anglo-American relations and that Britain came close to intervention in the conflict. Historians assert that it was only a combination of desperate diplomacy, the Confederacy's military losses, and Lincoln's timely issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation that kept the British on the sidelines. Phillip E. Myers seeks to revise this prevailing view by arguing instead that wartime relations between Britain and the United States were marked by caution rather than conflict.Using a wide array of primary materials from both sides of the Atlantic, Myers traces the various sources of potential Anglo-American wartime turmoil as well as the various reasons both sides had for avoiding war.And while he does note the disagreement between Washington and London, he convincingly demonstrates that transatlantic discord was ultimately minor and neither side seriously considered war against the other.Myers further extends his study into the postwar period to see how that bond strengthened and grew, culminating with the Treaty of Washington in 1871. As Myers points out, that relationship only grew in the decades and century to come. The Civil War was not, as so many have believed for so long, an unpleasant interruption in British-American affairs; instead, it was an event that helped bring the two countries closer together seal the friendship.Soundly researched and cogently argued, "Caution and Cooperation" will surely prompt discussion among Civil War historians, foreign relations scholars, and readers of history. |
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illustrations, notes, biblio., index |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Kent State University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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