Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

CHAPTER 1
Republic in Peril

CHAPTER 2
British Neutrality on Trial

CHAPTER 3
The Trent and Confederate Independence

CHAPTER 4
Road to Recognition

CHAPTER 5
Union and Confederacy at Bay

CHAPTER 6
The Paradox of Intervention

CHAPTER 7
Antietam and Emancipation

CHAPTER 8
Union-Confederate Crisis over Intervention

CHAPTER 9
Requiem for Napoleon—and Intervention

Epilogue

Notes

Historiographical Note

Bibliography

Index