King Cotton Diplomacy Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America Review
436CIVIL War HISTORY The delightful chip of Confederate verse quoted by the author probably summarizes the Battle of NashviUe, equally weU every bit Hood'due south chances for the big campaign , well-nigh as weU as whatever müitary analyst could ever hope to: And then now we're going to leaveyou, Our hearts are total of woe; We're going back to Georgia To see our Uncle Joe. You lot maytalk aboutyour Beauregard And sing of General Lee, But the gallant Hood of Texas Played heU in Tennessee. WmLIAM E. HlGHSMTTH JacksonviUe, Florida. King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Amalgamated States of America. By Frank Lawrence Owsley. 2nd edition. Revised by Harriet Chappell Owsley. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1959. Pp. xxiii, 614. $x.00.) SCHOLARS IMMEDIATELY Accepted THE Beginning EDITION of this book equally a bones study in the history of Civil State of war diplomacy when it appeared in 1931. It went out of print in 1954, but Mr. Owsley decided to write a diplomatic history of the United states during the Civil State of war rather than to republish Male monarch Cotton Diplomacy. He was laboring on this larger project at the time of his expiry in 1956. Always closely associated with her husband's work, Harriet ChappeU Owsley continued the inquiry for the larger study, just the pressure of her duties in the Tennessee State Library and Archives forced her to suspend it in favor of revising the 1931 edition. William C. Binkley, a coUeague of Mr. Owsley at Vanderbüt, has contributed a memorial foreword to this revision . In eight pages Mr. Binkley has given u.s.a. a sober and perceptive picture of one of the major historians of the terminal generation in his various roles of writer, southern sectionalist, and graduate adviser. As Mr. Binkley suggests, Mr. Owsley 'south other books, State Rights in the Confederacy and Phin Folk of the Sometime Southward, fabricated "pregnant contributions toward the restudy and rewriting of some important aspects of southern history." He could without exaggeration also have argued that the research summarized in Phin Folk had of import implications for American agricultural history and liistorical method generaUy. Mrs. Owsley has not revised the major outlines of the book. In research in England, France, and Wasliington after her hubby's death, she found the ideas of the first edition "completely sustained." Unmodified is the author's contention that Amalgamated strange policy was based through the early years of the Civil War on the assumption that southern cotton supplies were essential to both England and France. Unchanged also are his minor theses: that Nifty Britain, waxing fat on war profits, faüed to arbitrate because of fearfulness of war with the United states of america and from the conviction that the South would Book Reviews437 win independence anyway; that the action of the British government in halting the buüding of Confederate ships in British shipyards was unnecessary in lite of international precedent and practise; that Confederate diplomacy should take been based from the beginning on emancipation; that the Marriage's blockpde was non constructive and need not accept been recognized by European countries; and that the Confederate government should have taken control of the supplies of southern cotton at an early phase of the conflict and used them to purchase the materials of war. In her revision, Mrs. Owsley has reduced the text past some 20 pages and eliminated one affiliate heading. She has removed or compressed a number of iUustrative passages, reorganized some sections, sharpened the style somewhat and moderated the occasional inclination to unsopliisticated exuberance and high-flight metaphor which marked the beginning edition. Judah Benjamin is no longer "the Jew" and Isaac, CampbeU and Visitor are now "this firm," instead of "these Jews," although the trend to brand racial distinctions is stiU present to some degree. A quotation formerly credited to R. M. T. Hunter is now attributed to William Chiliad. Browne. OccasionaUy Mrs. Owsley has inserted new fabric but no major re-evaluation of men or events have resulted. Most extensively rewritten is the chapter entitled "The Troubled Waters of Mexico." Mrs. Owsley has brought the bibliography up to date, only she has non included the manufactures past European union Ginzberg and Martin P. Clausen on...
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