The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War /
The Civil War is most often understood as an internal conflict, one fought by American soldiers over issues uniquely American in origin and consequence. But in The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle reframes our understanding of the Civil War, describing it as a conflict that...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Timeline of key events 1860-1870
- Introduction: American crisis, global struggle
- Part I. Only a civil war?. Garibaldi's question ; We are a nation ; We will wrap the world in flames
- Part II. The American question. The republican experiment ; The empires return ; Foreign translations ; Foreign legions
- Part III. Liberty's war. The Latin strategy ; Garibaldi's answer ; Union and liberty ; The unspeakable dilemma ; Shall not perish
- Coda: Republican risorgimento.