King Cotton Diplomacy
Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of AmericaFrank L. Owsley Sr., revised by Harriet Chappell Owsley, and with a new Preface by Howard Jones
University of Alabama Press, 2008
The exhaustive, definitive study of Southern attempts to gain international support for the Confederacy by leveraging the cotton supply for European intervention during the Civil War. Using previously untapped sources from Britain and France, along with documents from the Confederacy’s state department, Frank Owsley’s King Cotton Diplomacy is the first archival-based study of Confederate diplomacy.
