Description:
A collection of essays highlighting the war not only as a North American conflict but as a global one
Brief description: A native of Ireland, David T. Gleeson is a reader in history at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and a former director of the College of Charleston's Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program. He is the editor of The Irish in the Atlantic World and coeditor of Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans and the author of The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America.
Review Quotes:
A collection of well-researched and provocative essays this is a book that merits a careful reading by anyone interested in the Civil War and the internal dimensions of the conflict.
-- "Florida Historical Quarterly"