{"product_id":"2940013836259","title":"GREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR","description":"CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER                                                       PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I. BACKGROUNDS  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   1\u003cbr\u003e  II. FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF IMPENDING CONFLICT, 1860-61   .  .  .  35\u003cbr\u003e III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POLICY, MAY, 1861  .  .  .  .  .  .  76\u003cbr\u003e  IV. BRITISH SUSPICION OF SEWARD .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 113\u003cbr\u003e   V. THE DECLARATION OF PARIS NEGOTIATION .  .  .  .  .  .  . 137\u003cbr\u003e  VI. BULL RUN; CONSUL BUNCH; COTTON, AND MERCIER   .  .  .  . 172\u003cbr\u003e VII. THE \"TRENT\"  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 203\u003cbr\u003eVIII. THE BLOCKADE .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 244\u003cbr\u003e  IX. ENTER MR. LINDSAY  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLORD JOHN RUSSELL   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e_From Trevelyan's \"Garibaldi and the Making of\u003cbr\u003eItaly_\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLORD LYONS (1860)  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   _facing p_. 42\u003cbr\u003e_From Lord Newton's \"Life of Lord Lyons\" (Edward\u003cbr\u003eArnold \u0026amp; Co_.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSIR WILLIAM GREGORY, K.C.M.G.  .  .  .  .  .       \"     90\u003cbr\u003e_From Lady Gregory's \"Sir William Gregory,\u003cbr\u003eK.C.M.G.: An Autobiography\"_ (_John Murray_)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM HENRY SEWARD  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       \"    114\u003cbr\u003e_From Lord Newton's \"Life of Lord Lyons\"_ (_Edward\u003cbr\u003eArnold \u0026amp; Co._)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC.F. ADAMS   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       \"    138\u003cbr\u003e_From a photograph in the United States Embassy,\u003cbr\u003eLondon_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJAMES M. MASON  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       \"    206\u003cbr\u003e_From a photograph by L.C. Handy, Washington_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"KING COTTON BOUND\"   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       \"    262\u003cbr\u003e_Reproduced by permission of the Proprietors of\u003cbr\u003e\"Punch\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBACKGROUNDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1862, less than a year after he had assumed his post in London, the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Minister, Charles Francis Adams, at a time of depression and\u003cbr\u003ebitterness wrote to Secretary of State Seward: \"That Great Britain did,\u003cbr\u003ein the most terrible moment of our domestic trial in struggling with a\u003cbr\u003emonstrous social evil she had earnestly professed to abhor, coldly and\u003cbr\u003eat once assume our inability to master it, and then become the only\u003cbr\u003eforeign nation steadily contributing in every indirect way possible to\u003cbr\u003everify its judgment, will probably be the verdict made against her by\u003cbr\u003eposterity, on calm comparison of the evidence[1].\" Very different were\u003cbr\u003ethe views of Englishmen. The historian, George Grote, could write: \"The\u003cbr\u003eperfect neutrality [of Great Britain] in this destructive war appears to\u003cbr\u003eme almost a phenomenon in political history. No such forbearance has\u003cbr\u003ebeen shown during the political history of the last two centuries. It is\u003cbr\u003ethe single case in which the English Government and public--generally so\u003cbr\u003emeddlesome--have displayed most prudent and commendable forbearance in\u003cbr\u003espite of great temptations to the contrary[2].\" And Sir William\u003cbr\u003eHarcourt, in September, 1863, declared: \"Among all Lord Russell's many\u003cbr\u003etitles to fame and to public gratitude, the manner in which he has\u003cbr\u003esteered the vessel of State through the Scylla and Charybdis of the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican War will, I think, always stand conspicuous[3].\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinister Adams, in the later years of the Civil War, saw reason somewhat\u003cbr\u003eto modify his earlier judgment, but his indictment of Great Britain was\u003cbr\u003elong prevalent in America, as, indeed, it was also among the historians\u003cbr\u003eand writers of Continental Europe--notably those of France and Russia.\u003cbr\u003eTo what extent was this dictum justified? Did Great Britain in spite of\u003cbr\u003eher long years of championship of personal freedom and of leadership in\u003cbr\u003ethe cause of anti-slavery seize upon the opportunity offered in the\u003cbr\u003edisruption of the American Union, and forgetting humanitarian idealisms,\u003cbr\u003ereact only to selfish motives of commercial advantage and national\u003cbr\u003epower? In brief, how is the American Civil War to be depicted by\u003cbr\u003ehistorians of Great Britain, recording her attitude and action in both\u003cbr\u003eforeign and domestic policy, and revealing the principles of her\u003cbr\u003estatesmen, or the inspirations of her people?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was to answer this question that the present work was originally\u003cbr\u003eundertaken; but as investigation proceeded it became progressively more\u003cbr\u003eclear that the great crisis in America was almost equally a crisis in\u003cbr\u003ethe domestic history of Great Britain itself and that unless this were\u003cbr\u003efully appreciated no just estimate was possible of British policy toward\u003cbr\u003eAmerica.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164630106352,"sku":"2940013836259","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013836259_p0.jpg?v=1763595362","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013836259","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}