Prologue -- Republic in peril -- British neutrality on trial -- The Trent and Confederate independence -- Road to recognition -- Union and Confederacy at bay -- The paradox of intervention -- Antietam and emancipation -- Union-Confederate crisis over intervention -- Requiem for Napoleon--and intervention -- Epilogue
Summary
In an examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Jones explores a number of themes, including the international economic and political dimensions of the war, the North's attempts to block the South from winning foreign recognition as a nation, Napoleon III's meddling in the war and his attempt to restore French power in the New World, and the inability of Europeans to understand the interrelated nature of slavery and union
