Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
History
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
Working from a global and transnational perspective, this dissertation is a first attempt to capture the global interactions between three players—the U.S., China, and Britain—during two horrific mid-nineteenth century civil wars. As a crucial global participant in the U.S. Civil War and the Taiping Rebellion in China, Britain applied a double standard of neutrality and exploited opportunities presented by the two conflicts to advance its self-interest. Britain’s involvement shaped the trajectories and outcomes of both wars and turned the two supposedly domestic civil wars into global wars. Britain’s imperialist expansion in China enables us to understand Britain’s contemporaneous neutrality in the U.S. Civil War.
Date
3-26-2024
Recommended Citation
Ye, Zhenman, "Civil War/Global War: the U.S., China, and Britain in the Mid-Nineteenth Century" (2024). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 6367.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/6367
Committee Chair
Aaron Sheehan-Dean