Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World

by Adrian Brettle

Book Overview

Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain their future empire. Impervious to reality, their vision of future world leadership--territorial, economic, political, and cultural--provided a vitally important, underappreciated motivation to form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813949084
• ISBN13: 9780813949086
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"