How Long to Read Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870

How Long Does it Take to Read Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 32 minutes to read Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870 by Jeffrey Zvengrowski

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In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America. They viewed themselves as struggling not so much for the preservation of slavery but for antebellum Democratic ideals of equality and white supremacy. The faction dominated the Confederate government and deemed Republicans a coalition controlled by pro-British abolitionists championing inequality among whites. Like Napoleon I and Napoleon III, pro-Davis Confederates desired to build an industrial nation-state capable of waging Napoleonic-style warfare with large conscripted armies. States’ rights, they believed, should not preclude the national government from exercising power. Anglophile anti-Davis Confederates, in contrast, advocated inequality among whites, favored radical states’ rights, and supported slavery-in-the-abstract theories that were dismissive of white supremacy. Having opposed pro-Davis Democrats before the war, they preferred decentralized guerrilla warfare to Napoleonic campaigns and hoped for support from Britain. The Confederacy, they avowed, would willingly become a de facto British agricultural colony upon achieving independence. Pro-Davis Confederates, wanted the Confederacy to become an ally of France and protector of sympathetic northern states. Zvengrowski traces the origins of the pro-Davis Confederate ideology to Jeffersonian Democrats and their faction of War Hawks, who lost power on the national level in the 1820s but regained it during Davis' term as secretary of war. Davis used this position to cultivate friendly relations with France and later warned northerners that the South would secede if Republicans captured the White House. When Lincoln won the 1860 election, Davis endorsed secession. The ideological heirs of the pro-British faction soon came to loathe Davis for antagonizing Britain and for offering to accept gradual emancipation in exchange for direct assistance from French soldiers in Mexico. Zvengrowski’s important new interpretation of Confederate ideology situates the Civil War in a global context of imperial competition. It also shows how anti-Davis ex-Confederates came to dominate the postwar South and obscure the true nature of Confederate ideology. Furthermore, it updates the biographies of familiar characters: John C. Calhoun, who befriended Bonapartist officers; Davis, who was as much a Francophile as his namesake, Thomas Jefferson; and Robert E. Lee, who as West Point’s superintendent mentored a grand-nephew of Napoleon I.

How long is Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870?

Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870 by Jeffrey Zvengrowski is 379 pages long, and a total of 98,161 words.

This makes it 128% the length of the average book. It also has 120% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 56 minutes to read Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870 aloud.

What Reading Level is Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870?

Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815–1870 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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