Britain in The American Civil War - Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Adams, Ephraim Douglass. Great Britain and the American Civil War (2 vol. 1925) online edition of 1958 reprint
  • Baxter, James P. 3rd. "Papers Relating to Belligerent and Neutral Rights, 1861-1865". American Historical Review Vol 34 No 1 (Oct 1928) in JSTOR
  • Baxter, James P. 3rd. "The British Government and Neutral Rights, 1861-1865." American Historical Review Vol 34 No 1 (Oct 1928) in JSTOR
  • Berwanger, Eugene H. The British Foreign Service and the American Civil War. (1994), the diplomats and consuls
  • Blackett, R. J. M. Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001) 273pp
  • Bourne Kenneth. Britain and the Balance of Power in North America, 1815-1908. (1967)
  • Bourne, Kenneth. "British Preparations for War with the North, 1861-1862," The English Historical Review Vol 76 No 301 (Oct 1961) pp 600–632 in JSTOR
  • Brauer, Kinley J. "The Slavery Problem in the Diplomacy of the American Civil War," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Aug., 1977), pp. 439–469 in JSTOR
  • Brauer, Kinley J. "British Mediation and the American Civil War: A Reconsideration," Journal of Southern History, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Feb., 1972), pp. 49–64 in JSTOR
  • Campbell, Duncan Andrew, English Public Opinion and the American Civil War (2003)
  • Cook Adrian. The Alabama Claims: American Politics and Anglo-American Relations, 1861-1872. (1975)
  • Crook, David Paul. The North, the South, and the Powers, 1861-1865 (1974.)
  • Crook, D. P. Diplomacy During the American Civil War. (1975).
  • Duberman Martin B. Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886 (1961)
  • Ferris, Norman B. Desperate Diplomacy: William H. Seward's Foreign Policy, 1861. (1976) 265pp, scholarly study of 1861.
  • Ferris, Norman B. The Trent Affair: A Diplomatic Crisis (1977) standard history
  • Foreman, Amanda. A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War (Random House, 2011), 958 pp.
    • Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "How the British Nearly Supported the Confederacy," New York Times Sunday Book Review June 30, 2011 online
  • Gentry, Judith Fenner. "A Confederate Success in Europe: The Erlanger Loan," Journal of Southern History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (May, 1970), pp. 157–188 in JSTOR
  • Ginzberg, Eli. "The Economics of British Neutrality during the American Civil War," Agricultural History, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Oct., 1936), pp. 147–156 in JSTOR
  • Graebner, Norman A., Northern Diplomacy and European Neutrality in Why the North Won the Civil War edited by David Herbert Donald. (1960) ISBN 0-684-82506-6 (1996 Revision)
  • Hubbard, Charles M. The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy (1998) 271pp
  • Hyman, Harold Melvin. Heard Round the World; the Impact Abroad of the Civil War. (1969).
  • Jenkins, Brian. Britain & the War for the Union. (2 vol 1974), by Canadian scholar
  • Jones, Howard. Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War (1992)
  • Jones, Howard. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: the Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War, (1999)
  • Jones, Wilbur Devereux. "The British Conservatives and the American Civil War," American Historical Review, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Apr., 1953), pp. 527-543 in JSTOR
  • Lester, Richard I. Confederate Finance and Purchasing in Great Britain. (1975).
  • Lorimer, Douglas A. "The Role of Anti-Slavery Sentiment in English Reactions to the American Civil War," Historical Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 405–420 in JSTOR
  • Macdonald, Helen Grace. Canadian Public Opinion and the American Civil War (1926)
  • Mahin, Dean B. One war at a time: The international dimensions of the American Civil War (Brassey's, 1999)
  • Merli, Frank J. The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War. (2004). 225 pp.
  • Merli, Frank J. Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861-1865 (1971) 360pp
  • Morton, W. L. The Critical Years: The Union of British North America, 1857-1873 (1964), on Canada
  • Nevins, Allan. "Britain, France and the War Issues." In Allan Nevins, The War for the Union: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863, (1960) pp. 242–274, excellent summary
  • Owsley, Frank Lawrence. King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America (1931)
  • Milne, A. Taylor. "The Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862," American Historical Review, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Apr., 1933), pp. 511–525 in JSTOR
  • Smith, Adam I.P. "The 'Cult' of Abraham Lincoln and the Strange Survival of Liberal England in the Era of the World Wars," Twentieth Century British History' '(2010) 21#4 pp 486-509, how Lincoln became a hero to the British
  • Stahr, Walter. Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man (2012)
  • Taylor, John M. William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand (1991), 340pp; popular biography that praises Seward
  • Van Deusen, Glyndon G. William Henry Seward (1967), standard biography.
  • Warren, Gordon H. Fountain of Discontent: The Trent Affair and Freedom of the Seas (1981), 317pp, based on extensive archival work
  • Winks Robin W. Canada and the United States: The Civil War Years. (1971).

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