The United State and France: Civil War Diplomacy

xv, 747 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Secession and the Union; Recognition of Southern Belligerency; The Declaration of Paris; The Blockade and the Ports Bill; The First Year of the Great Strangulation; France and the "Trent" Affair; The Pendulum of Intervention Threats; Opening Southern Ports and Retreat Before Richmond; Emancipation and the October Intervention Crisis; Joint Mediation, 1862: Causes and Effects; Unilateral Mediation, 1863; The "Awkward" Roebuck Affair; Confederate Naval Construction in France; Problems of Neutrality: Ships and Harbors; Problems of Neutrality: Movement of Goods; The Cessation of Hostilities; Men and Issues; Notes; Bibliography; Index.