One war at a time Book

	Preface	viii
Chapter 1	Holding Watch Against Foreign Intrusion: Abraham Lincoln and Foreign Affairs	1
Chapter 2	To Be Treated as Other Independent Nations: Confederate Foreign Policy	15
Chapter 3	A Powerlessness to Comprehend: British Reactions to the American Civil War	23
Chapter 4	Recognition Would Be Intervention: Union and Confederate Relations with Britain, April-November 1861	44
Chapter 5	A Gross Outrage: The Trent Crisis, November-December 1861	58
Chapter 6	Cotton Is King: Cotton in Confederate Diplomacy, Trade, and Finance	83
Chapter 7	A War with America Would Hamper My Operations: Union and Confederate Relations with France, 1861-1862	95
Chapter 8	Maintaining the Independence of Mexico: Union Relations with the Mexican Republic	106
Chapter 9	We May Wait a While: Britain Considers Intervention, 1862	122
Chapter 10	The Wolf from Liverpool: British Roles in the Construction, Escape, and Operations of the Confederate Raider Alabama	142
Chapter 11	No Obligation to Stop a Contraband Trade: British Arms and Supplies for the Confederacy	161
Chapter 12	A Thing to be Deprecated: Britain Detains the Ironclad Rams, 1863	174
Chapter 13	Questions of Great Intricacy and Importance: Lincoln Conciliates Britain, 1863	185
Chapter 14	To Make Europeans Understand: Other European Reactions to the American Civil War	197
Chapter 15	Alone on the Earth: The Twilight of Confederate Diplomacy, 1863-1865	208
Chapter 16	This Government Avoids Intervention: Union and Confederate Reactions to the French Invasion and Imperial Government in Mexico, 1862-1865	218
Chapter 17	A War with America as Soon as She Makes Peace: Union Relations with Britain and Canada, 1864-1865	239
Chapter 18	Government by the People Shall Not Perish: The International Lincoln	257
Epilogue I	A Source of Apprehension and Danger: U.S. Pressures for French Withdrawal from Mexico, 1865-1867	269
Epilogue II	The Massive Grievance: The "Alabama Claims" Against Britain, 1865-1872	286
	Notes	301
	Index	333