Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations

A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War–era diplomacy

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“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly for the lack of any real chance of British intervention on the side of the Confederacy and dating the end-of-the-century Anglo-American rapprochement back about three decades. Based on extensive research in t...