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In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a … Mehr…

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America. They viewed themselves as struggling not so much for the preservation of slavery but for antebellum Democratic ideals of equality and white supremacy. The faction dominated the Confederate government and deemed Republicans a coalition controlled by pro-British abolitionists championing inequality among whites. Like Napoleon I and Napoleon III, pro-Davis Confederates desired to build an industrial nation-state capable of waging Napoleonic-style warfare with large conscripted armies. States’ rights, they believed, should not preclude the national government from exercising power. Anglophile anti-Davis Confederates, in contrast, advocated inequality among whites, favored radical states’ rights, and supported slavery-in-the-abstract theories that were dismissive of white supremacy. Having opposed pro-Davis Democrats before the war, they preferred decentralized guerrilla warfare to Napoleonic campaigns and hoped for support from Britain. The Confederacy, they avowed, would willingly become a de facto British agricultural colony upon achieving independence. Pro-Davis Confederates, wanted the Confederacy to become an ally of France and protector of sympathetic northern states. Zvengrowski traces the origins of the pro-Davis Confederate ideology to Jeffersonian Democrats and their faction of War Hawks, who lost power on the national level in the 1820s but regained it during Davis' term as secretary of war. Davis used this position to cultivate friendly relations with France and later warned northerners that the South would secede if Republicans captured the White House. When Lincoln won the 1860 election, Davis endorsed secession. The ideological heirs of the pro-British faction soon came to loathe Davis for antagonizing Britain and for offering to accept gradual emancipation in exchange for direct assistance from French soldiers in Mexico. Zvengrowski’s important new interpretation of Confederate ideology situates the Civil War in a global context of imperial competition. It also shows how anti-Davis ex-Confederates came to dominate the postwar South and obscure the true nature of Confederate ideology. Furthermore, it updates the biographies of familiar characters: John C. Calhoun, who befriended Bonapartist officers; Davis, who was as much a Francophile as his namesake, Thomas Jefferson; and Robert E. Lee, who as West Point’s superintendent mentored a grand-nephew of Napoleon I. Digital Content>E-books>Military History>Civil War,Reconstruction>Civil War, Louisiana State University Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780807172308

LSU Press American Civil War History 1860 election; 1st Bonapartist Empire; 2nd Bonapartist Empire; Bonapartist France; Confederate ideology; Confederate States of America; French Empire;… Mehr…

LSU Press American Civil War History 1860 election; 1st Bonapartist Empire; 2nd Bonapartist Empire; Bonapartist France; Confederate ideology; Confederate States of America; French Empire; Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans; John C. Calhoun; Know Nothings; Napoleon; Napoleon III; Robert E. Lee; State's Rights; Tertium Quids; Thomas Jefferson; War Hawks; War of 1812 , UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20200106 English History, LSU Press<

ISBN: 9780807172308

Jefferson Davis Napoleonic France and the Nature of Confederate Ideology 1815-1870 ab 21.49 € als epub eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus, Medien > Bücher nein eBook als… Mehr…

Jefferson Davis Napoleonic France and the Nature of Confederate Ideology 1815-1870 ab 21.49 € als epub eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus, Medien > Bücher nein eBook als epub eBooks > Geschichte & Dokus, Kind World Publishing<

ISBN: 9780807172308

Jefferson Davis Napoleonic France and the Nature of Confederate Ideology 1815-1870: ab 21.49 € eBooks > Geschichte & Dokus Kind World Publishing eBook als epub, Kind World Publishing

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