King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America

by Frank Lawrence Owsley Sr. and Frank L Owsley Sr

The exhaustive, definitive study of Southern attempts to gain international support for the Confederacy by leveraging the cotton supply for European intervention during the Civil War. Using previously untapped sources from Britain and France, along with documents from the Confederacy's state department, Frank Owsley's King Cotton Diplomacy is the first archival-based study of Confederate diplomacy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081735526X
• ISBN13: 9780817355265
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 644 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"