Professor Richard Huzzey richard.w.huzzey@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Professor Richard Huzzey richard.w.huzzey@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Don H. Doyle
Editor
This chapter analyses how Britons responded to the febrile political and social crises of the Americas in the 1860s. Although the American Civil War created a particular challenge – and great confusion – to observers in the United Kingdom, that conflict was one of a wider range of concerns in balancing the demands of rival imperial and new post-colonial powers to preserve British influence. Considering opinions expressed travel writing and political commentary, the chapter argues that Britons struggled to balance competing interests – in economic affairs, in geopolitical strategy, in imperial authority, and in suppression of the slave trade – to maintain a manifestly uncertain dominion over the Americas. Touching on British concerns stretching from the Mosquito Coast to the Pacific north--west, the chapter suggests that crises in the Americas illuminated diverse priorities and anxieties.
Huzzey, R. (2017). Manifest Dominion: The British Empire and the Crises of the Americas in the 1860s. In D. H. Doyle (Ed.), American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s (82-106). The University of North Carolina Press. https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631097.003.0005
Online Publication Date | Feb 13, 2017 |
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Publication Date | 2017-02 |
Deposit Date | Sep 15, 2016 |
Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 82-106 |
Series Title | Civil War America |
Book Title | American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s. |
Chapter Number | 4 |
ISBN | 9781469631097 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631097.003.0005 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1641748 |
Contract Date | Sep 15, 2016 |
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