Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Negus, Samuel David Author's Email Address samnegus@gmail.com URN etd-11222005-125257 Title Render unto Caesar: Sovereignty, the Obligations of Citizenship, and the Diplomatic History of the American Civil War Degree Master of Arts Department History Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Glenn T. Eskew Committee Chair Wendy Venet Committee Member Keywords
- Sovereignty
- Consuls
- Britain
- Diplomacy
- American Civil War
- State Rights.
Date of Defense 2005-11-05 Availability unrestricted Abstract In scholarship on the Civil War there is generally a lack of emphasis placed upon the significance of transatlantic diplomacy. However, much of the literature that is devoted to this subject does little to draw the importance of diplomatic and domestic histories together. This thesis uses British Foreign Office papers to discuss the role of Her majesty’s consuls, and the importance of resident persons of British nativity, especially within the Confederacy, during the war. It argues that the struggle between the Union and the new Confederacy affected diplomatic relations not only in the geo-political sense, but directly and personally through the fate of foreign individuals residing within America. Political theory and the semantics of ideology will be cross-examined against British, Confederate and Union government documents and correspondence in order to develop a deeper understanding of the flexibility and malleability of the concept of sovereignty, and its role in Civil War diplomacy.Files
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