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In the first years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield; however, cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized the demographic and industrial weight pitted against them, and counted on British intervention to even those scales in order to deny the United States victory. Bluff, Bluster Lies and Spies is a wild ride through the mismanaged State Department of William Henry Seward in Washington, DC, to the more skillful work of Lords Palmerston, Russell and Lyons in the British Foreign Office. Fearful that Great Britain would recognize the Confederacy and provide the help that might have defeated the Union, the Lincoln administration was careful not to upset the greatest naval power on earth. At the same time, however, Great Britain needed to retain influence on American foreign policy, because her very safety and existence as an empire depended upon it. In face of the growth of the Union navy--particularly its new ironclad ships--she turned out to be a paper tiger who relied on bluff and bluster to preserve the illusion of international strength. Britain had its own continental rivals with whom to vie, and the question of whether a truncated United States or a reunited stronger one was most advantageous was a vital question. Ultimately Prime Minister Palmerston decided that Great Britain would be no match for a Union armada that could have seized British possessions throughout the Western Hemisphere, including Canada, and he frustrated any ambitions to break Lincoln's blockade of the Confederacy with Britannia. In addition to the naval arms race between Britain and France, Europe was covered with the spies, arms dealers, detectives and publicists who struggled to buy guns and to influence European opinion about the validity of either the Union or Confederate cause. This book describes in full how the Civil War in the New World was ultimately left to Southern battlefield prowess alone to determine, as the powers of the Old World declined to overtly intervene in the American question. Nominated for the Gilder Lehrman Prize

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ISBN-10
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9781612003627
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Book Title
Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies : the Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861-1865
Author
David Perry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / Naval, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Modern / 19th Century
Publication Year
2016
Genre
History
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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gives a useful general overview of the developing relationship between the president and Seward, who early on at times acted as the de factopresident but grew to be on the same page for the most part. Perry also explores other aspects of the U.S.-Great Britain interactions, as well as including information on Lincoln's and Seward's diplomatic relations with other world powers such as France, as well as some of the smaller entities that had an interest in American foreign policy., gives a useful general overview of the developing relationship between the president and Seward, who early on at times acted as the de factopresident but grew to be on the same page for the most part. Perry also explores other aspects of the U.S.-Great Britain interactions, as well as including information on Lincoln's and Seward's diplomatic relations with other world powers such as France, as well as some of the smaller entities that had an interest in American foreign policy., The writing is crisp, the personalities explained and the agendas understandable giving the reader an excellent understandable look at the subject., Your book will be most excellent and provide a very meaningful thesis on Lincoln's foreign relations. Congratulations! I look forward to reading [your book] and am willing to state to any publisher that it is a masterpiece. , relates many stories of the naval arms race between Britain and France. Europe was filled with arms dealers, spies and detectives who were tasked with purchasing armaments and influencing European public opinion. But in the end, as he demonstrates, it was left to Confederate defeats or victories to determine the relationship between the old world and the new. Ultimately, the old world declined to intervene overtly in the American Civil War. This book is highly recommended for those interested in Civil War diplomacy or possible European intervention., Your book will be most excellent and provide a very meaningful thesis on Lincoln's foreign relations. Congratulations! I look forward to reading [your book] and am willing to state to any publisher that it is a masterpiece.
Table of Content
Preface Introduction 1 The Enigma and the Mystery 2 Alliances, Wild Cards and Don Quixote 3 Hoary and Shrewd Men 4 Whistling in the Wind 5 American Braggadocio 6 Dispatch No.10 7 One War at a Time 8 Cobden and Bright, et al. 9 Peterhoff 10 From Cottages to Castles Epilogue Endnotes Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Appendices Index
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
973.72
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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