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Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post–Civil War

by Adrian 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. Impervious to reality, their vision of future world leadership―territorial, economic, p

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780813949086