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Chargement... Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)par Jeffrey Zvengrowski
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"In his highly innovative study of Confederate political theory, Jeffrey Zvengrowski explains the American Civil War in a new way by arguing that Jefferson Davis and the faction of Confederate leaders who supported him saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America. As such, they saw themselves as struggling not so much for slavery directly, but rather for equality among whites and for white supremacy. And they believed that they were fighting a Republican Party coalition that stood for inequality among whites by means of racial equality or racial equality by means of universal equality. This bloc of the Confederate leadership also wanted to build an industrial nation-state capable of waging Napoleonic warfare with large conscripted armies, and they insisted that state's rights did not mean states should inhibit the national government from exercising such delegated powers as building militarily useful infrastructure. They expected to receive support from many northern Democrats and the Bonapartists of Napoleon III's France, each of whom espoused white equality and supremacy even though they both disliked slavery as an institution more than pro-Davis Confederates. Anglophile anti-Davis Confederates, in contrast, advocated inequality among whites, favored radical state's rights inimical to energetic government at any level, and supported theories of slavery that were hostile to white rule without it. Preferring guerilla to Napoleonic warfare, they hoped to receive support from Britain by asserting that southern plantations were akin to romanticized British aristocratic estates; and that the Confederacy would happily become a de facto British agricultural colony"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)973.713092History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War Political history; causes, results Secession of southern statesClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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I'll further add, that, there are what seems to be some very strange aspects to this book, which appears to be the published version of Zvengrowski's doctoral thesis. There is no real introduction to talk about his motivation and methodology, or why you should care about this study. There are no acknowledgments. These is no bibliography, which disguises what seems like a shallow dive in the secondary literature. Also, Zvengrowski can't be bothered to properly cite records from the U.S. National Archives. Finally, the only personalization one can find is a very curt dedication to the author's wife and kids in a rather small typeface. When you hunt down the man's capsule biography at the University of Virginia website, you'll notice that what he really appears to do is archival and library work, which raises the suspicion that the doctoral thesis was mostly written to fulfill a job prerequisite; that's fine. It still doesn't explain why the LSU Press published this work in the form it did; it certainly doesn't display any pride in ownership by Zvengrowski. ( )