The Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy; The Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History, 1900
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1901. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 304, [6] pages. Footnotes. Appendix. Index. Slightly cocked with small tears and chips to edges of pages. Name of previous owner written inside front board. One of the first professional historians of West Virginia, James Morton Callahan (November 4, 1864-March 16, 1956) was was educated at Indiana University, and Johns Hopkins University. He was awarded a Ph.D. by Johns Hopkins in 1897, where he studied under Herbert Baxter Adams, one of the nation’s most renowned historians. From 1898 to 1902, Callahan taught history at Johns Hopkins and served concurrently as director of the Bureau of Historical Research in Washington. In 1902, he was appointed chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at West Virginia University. In 1916, Callahan became dean of the WVU College of Arts and Sciences, a position he held until 1929. Callahan continued to pursue his interests in international relations, a field in which he was a pioneer. Excerpt: This volume is a study of the efforts of the Confederate authorities, in the face of waning hope and diminishing resources, to secure foreign recognition and support. It considers the forces which controlled the European powers and defeated the attempt to divide the American Union, which, if successful, would have changed the current of political and economic evolution. It gives a careful and purely historical presentation of the theories, purposes, policies, diplomatic efforts, and difficulties of the Secessionists, as reflected from their official archives and other original records. It traces the working of the diplomatic machine during the many variations of the military and political situation, closely observes the attitude, motives, and policy of the great nations with whom the Confederate agents sought to negotiate, and throws light upon international questions arising between the United States and foreign powers. The work is, in a large measure, based upon the Confederate diplomatic correspondence. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Diplomatic History, Civil War, Confederacy, Judah P. Benjamin, Blockade, Cotton, Intervention, Duncan Kenner, James Murray Mason, Trent Affair, William Lowndes Yancey
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