The Cause of All Nations, Don H. Doyle
The Cause of All Nations, Don H. Doyle
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The Cause of All Nations
An International History of the American Civil War

Author: Don H. Doyle

Narrator: Adam Grupper

Unabridged: 14 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/30/2014


Synopsis

When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, he realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that in Europe and Latin America people were watching to see whether the democratic experiment in "government by the people" would "perish from the earth." In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle explains that the Civil War was more than an internal American conflict; it was a struggle that spanned the Atlantic Ocean. This book follows the agents of the North and South who went abroad to tell the world what they were fighting for, and the foreign politicians, journalists, and intellectuals who told America and the world what they thought this war was really about-or ought to be about. Foreigners looked upon the American contest as an epic battle in a grand historic struggle that would decide the fate of democracy as well as slavery for generations to come. A bold account of the international dimensions of America's defining conflict, The Cause of All Nations frames the Civil War as a crucial turning point in the global struggle over the future of democracy.

About Don H. Doyle

Don H. Doyle is McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Cause of All Nations and Secession as an International Phenomenon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph

One of the best books I have read on the Civil War and an outstanding example of U.S. and the World scholarship. Doyle puts an international lens on the Civil War in several respects: 1. The international diplomacy of recognition and legitimacy 2. The public diplomacy struggle of how to frame the wa......more

Goodreads review by J.

This book is not only great history, it is also a great read. I couldn't put it down. I'm not a Civil War historian, so I don't know whether or not Doyle's thesis is well-known. In brief, he tells the story of the Civil War from an international perspective. The world looked on as the fate of human......more

Goodreads review by Brian

I don't know of many books which can follow the affairs of nations while so I will tediously following the individual fortunes of men and the social currents in which they are engulfed, but this book can and does.......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

An informative and interesting look at the international reactions to the American Civil War. Highly recommend to those who view the Civil War as an insular event, or are just curious what people like Karl Marx, Napoleon III, or Pius IX thought about the whole thing.......more