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Slavery, Secession, and Civil War - Views from the UK and Europe, 1856-1865 (Paperback)
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Slavery, Secession, and Civil War - Views from the UK and Europe, 1856-1865 (Paperback)
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Noted historian Charles Adams has assembled an extraordinary
collection of articles never before collected and made available
for easy study written by foreign journalists at the time of the
U.S. Civil War. These journals are a fount of insights about the
war, and readers will be rewarded with a new appreciation for the
views of contemporary foreign observers of America's war. Readers
will realize that the Europeans seemed to know more about America's
"quarrel," as they liked to call the war, than previously thought
possible. Foreign observers wrote in an atmosphere of freedom,
without the dangers that crippled and destroyed journalism in
America. Foreign writers were not arrested and locked up; nor were
foreign journals silenced by armed soldiers, mobs, or by censorship
of the mails, nor were their editors hauled off to prison. Also,
the American Civil War was not their struggle, and, as the reader
will discover, by looking at the quarrel from a distance the
foreign correspondents could see what Americans at the scene could
not. A broad sweep of views running from pro-North to pro-South,
with foreign writers marshalling their arguments with facts and
information that had come to their attention, is presented. Among
the many distinguished British journals represented are Blackwood's
Magazine, The Saturday Review, Macmillan's Magazine, The Athenaeum,
The Cornhill Magazine, The Economist, The Times and two periodicals
edited by Charles Dickens Household Words and All the Year Round.
From the continent there are translated articles from the French La
Presse and Revue des Deux Monde, the Italian La Civilta Cattolica
and Scritti Editie Inediti, and the Spanish Pensamiento Espanol and
La Iberia. Civil War historians and students will certainly benefit
from the fascinating observations afforded by the golden age of
periodical literature presented in Slavery, Secession, and Civil
War."
General
Imprint: |
Scarecrow Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2006 |
First published: |
December 2006 |
Authors: |
Charles Adams
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Dimensions: |
233 x 149 x 34mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
520 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8108-5863-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
0-8108-5863-0 |
Barcode: |
9780810858633 |
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