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Author Sainlaude, Stève, author.

Title France and the American Civil War : a diplomatic history / Stève Sainlaude ; translated by Jessica Edwards ; foreword by Don H. Doyle
Edition First edition
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Contents The French position -- The implementation of neutrality -- The emperor gets involved in the war -- The Entente Cordiale and American policy -- France's view of the South -- Myth and reality -- The weight of the "peculiar institution" in diplomatic relations -- Napoleon III's "grand design" and the Confederacy -- The future lies in union -- The future of the disunited states -- The South, a trade partner? -- The imbalance of power
Summary France's involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power's role remain little understood. Here, Stève Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict. Drawing on archival sources that have been neglected by scholars up to this point, Sainlaude overturns many commonly held assumptions about French relations with the Union and the Confederacy. As Sainlaude demonstrates, no major European power had a deeper stake in the outcome of the conflict than France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 6, 2019)
Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Diplomatic relations
SUBJECT France -- Foreign relations -- United States
France -- Foreign relations -- Confederate States of America
United States -- Foreign relations -- France
Confederate States of America -- Foreign relations -- France
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140081
France -- Foreign relations -- 1852-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051245
Subject France
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Edwards, Jessica, translator.
Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946- writer of introduction.
Sainlaude, Stève. Gouvernement impérial et la guerre de sécession (1861-1865) English.
Sainlaude, Stève. France et la Confédération sudiste, 1861-1865. English.
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