Introduction / Robert E. May -- History and mythology: the crisis over British intervention in the Civil War / Howard Jones -- Pressure from without: African Americans, British public opinion, and Civil War diplomacy / R. J. M. Blackett -- Napoleon is coming! Maximilian is coming?: The international history of the Civil War in the Caribbean Basin / Thomas Schoonover -- "The whole family of man": Lincoln and the last best hope abroad / James M. McPherson.
Summary:
Considers why the Confederacy never received foreign aid and traces the Civil War's impact on European and Latin nations and dependencies.
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