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Colossal ambitions : Confederate planning for a post-Civil War world /
"Colossal Ambitions explores how leading Confederate thinkers envisioned their postwar nation -- its relationship with the United States, its place in the Americas, and its role in the global order. These thinkers were optimists, ambitious to create a global politics rooted in a specifically Co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Nation divided.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Vast World They Wanted
- 1. What Would an Independent South Mean for the World in 1861?
- 2. How War Changed the Future Nation: April 1861 to February 1862
- 3. Self-Sufficiency at Home and Self-Assertion Abroad: Confederate Ambitions for the Remainder of 1862
- 4. Renewal through Adversity: Confederates Reboot Their Ambitions in 1863
- 5. A Conservative Future: January to the Fall of 1864
- 6. The Sacrifice Cannot Be in Vain: The Future in a Transformed World, November 1864 to May 1865
- Epilogue: What Are You Going to Do?
- Notes
- Index
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