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Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post–Civil War

byAdrian Brettle

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. Drawing on archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, the narrative gives Colossal Ambitions a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the confederate planning for a post–civil war becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within history.

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780813949086