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Henri Mercier and the American Civil War
By (Author) Daniel B. Carroll
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)
History of the Americas
973.72
Hardback
420
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
As French ambassador to the United States from July 1860 through December 1863, Henri Mercier was in an excellent position to observe, report, and influence the events of those crucial years. Through a description of Mercier's diplomacy, Professor Carroll gives a new account of the Civil War--the tenacious nationalism of the Lincoln-Seward governme