Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers,
manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative,
world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their
compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain
their future empire. Impervious to reality, their vision of future
world leadership-territorial, economic, political, and
cultural-provided a vitally important, underappreciated motivation
to form an independent Confederate republic. In Colossal Ambitions,
Adrian Brettle 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. Brettle
draws on rich caches of published and unpublished letters and
diaries, Confederate national and state government documents,
newspapers published in North America and England, conference
proceedings, pamphlets, contemporary and scholarly articles, and
more to engage the perspectives of not only modern historians but
some of the most salient theorists of the Western World in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An impressive and complex
undertaking, Colossal Ambitions concludes that while some
Confederate commentators saw wartime industrialization as pointing
toward a different economic future, most Confederates saw their
society as revolving once more around coercive labor, staple crop
production, and exports in the war's wake.
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