The Civil War as global conflict :  transnational meanings of the American Civil War / 
edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis. 
 - 1 online resource (317 pages). 
 - The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic world .
 - Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Why civil war? : the politics of slavery in comparative perspective : the United States, Cuba, and Brazil / Edward B. Rugemer -- King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp -- "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle -- "Two irreconcilable peoples?" : ethnic nationalism in the Confederacy / James M. McPherson -- Proving their loyalty to the republic : English immigrants and the American Civil War / David T. Gleeson -- "A new expression of that entente cordiale"? : Russian-American relations and the fleet episode of 1863 / Alexander Noonan -- The Rhine River : the impact of the German states on transatlantic diplomacy / Niels Eichhorn -- Lex Talionis in the U.S. Civil War : retaliation and the limits of atrocity / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Fulfilling "the president's duty to communicate" : the Civil War and the creation of the Foreign relations of the United States series / Aaron W. Marrs -- "They had heard of emancipation and the enfranchisement of their race" : the African American colonists of Samana, reconstruction, and the state of Santo Domingo / Christopher Wilkins -- Nurse as icon : Florence Nightingale's impact on women in the American Civil War / Jane E. Schultz -- Race, romance, and "the spectacle of unknowing" in Gone with the wind : a South African response / Lesley Marx -- Coda : roundtable on memory / O. Vernon Burton, Edmund L. Drago, W. Eric Emerson, Joseph McGill, Theodore N. Rosengarten, Amanda Foreman. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781611173260 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Causes.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>United States--History--Political aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>United States--History--Social aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>United States--History--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E459  / .C59 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.7