The American Civil War Through British Eyes

Dispatches from British Diplomats, Volume 2: April 1862-February 1863
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-87338-830-6
Verlag: Kent State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

The dispatches from Lord Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Second Baron, British Envoy Extraordinary in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War offer insight into contemporaneous Anglo-American relations. The three-and-a-half-year period covered in these two volumes witnessed the fierce and deadly battles of the war fought both in the North and in the South, the shifting moods of public opinion and patriotic fervor, the changing economic conditions, and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The three volumes of The American Civil War through British Eyes make available important, previously unpublished documents that fill a void for students and scholars of the war. Lyon's dispatches offer a unique perspective on America during its bitterest test of national unity. Through them the Civil War unfolds not in retrospect but through the eyes of a contemporary observer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnes

Barnes, Patience P

Über Autor(innen)

James J. Barnes is professor of history at Wabash College in Indiana. He was a Rhodes and Fulbright Scholar and received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Patience P. Barnes is a research associate at Wabash College and a freelance writer and editor