A masterful account of Confederate naval strategy and personnel... [and] the response of Britain to the efforts of the Confederacy to acquire a navy in Britain and thus traverse Britain’s neutral obligations." ―American Historical ReviewThis book; originally issued in 1970; describes the frustrated; faltering; and sometimes heroic attempts of the Confederacy to circumvent British neutrality and build a navy in Great Britain during the American Civil War. The story possesses many of the elements of good fiction: there are the sharply rendered principal actors; the suspense and narrative excitement of the adventures of the Southern raiders; and the cunning appraisals of diplomatic intrigues; maneuverings; and oversights. This is a readable and illuminating account of the diplomatic maneuverings behind the Confederacy’s failed attempt to enlist British aid for the secessionist cause.
#931386 in Books Musya Glants 1997-08-22 1997-08-22Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x .60 x 6.12l; .90 #File Name: 0253211069280 pagesISBN13: 9780253211064Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Insights into Russian Cuisine and the Russian CharacterBy Maria LThis book gets a high rating because of its well chosen grouping of essays on various aspects of Russian cuisine and how it ties into the culture and daily life. Having studied some of the same at the Yastreboff School of Russian Language in San Francisco; the essays herein expanded my understanding even further while presenting a different angle to the analysis. When you are living in the thick of it; you may not even be aware of how a tradition or circumstances (Soviet era) may look from an objective observer's point of view. This was the great value of this book for me. It is written by two very well-credentialed authors; whose other writings I would also endorse. A bonus for me was a greater understanding about the significance of bread; the Russian pech (oven) and why my great grandmother was horrified one year when her kulichi (Easter bread) did not come out. That was the year the Bolsheviks shot her husband.12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. An excellent collection of essays on a big themeBy Eileen G.These essays -- by a roster of accomplished contemporary scholars of Russian Studies -- are wonderfully accesible and informative. Readers with interests in folk culture and history; Russian studies (history; literature; whatever) and/or culinary history will feel like they've struck gold. The thirteen scholarly pieces; some with a few illustrations; cover a wealth of topics (see table of contents above)-- consistently well. It's anything but dry; Pamela Chester's article on the relationship between (state-) tormented poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam (and their uses of food as symbol and; tragically; their deprivation of it; later) is heartbreaking. Peasantry; the gentry; and the Eastern Orthodox church; brilliant fussbudget Tolstoy's vegetarianism is in here; the uses of food in the writing of Dostoyevsky; fasting and food fashions; Catherine the Great (hardly any tastebuds; hearty interest in 'presentation'); the new Soviet state with its ambitious dreams for the citizenry; and the ultimate cynical mess that resulted. Food as power; class marker; moral symbol; and solace. The roots of asceticism (Orthodox church).Unfortunately; Jewish life and gulag life has been omitted; and a careful list of the prices of foodstuffs in St. Petersburg in Catherine's time is all rubles and kopeks... so I couldn't tell what I might have been able to afford.. What's here; though; is very good. I'll look for Volume 2.
