Lionel Jobert and the American Civil War : An Atlantic Identity in the Making.

By:

Bosworth, Stephen D

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781438485119
1438485115

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lionel Jobert and the American Civil WarDDC classification:

974.7447 23

LOC classification:

E523.5 53rd .B67 2021

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Summary: Millions of soldiers and civilians passionately supported one side or the other in the American Civil War. For Colonel Lionel Jobert d'Epineuil of the Fifty-Third New York Volunteer Regiment, however, his own advancement mattered more than the outcome of the conflict. This biography analyzes the remarkable exploits of a man driven by ambition--and unhindered by scruples--to attain position and prestige in the Atlantic region during the second half of the nineteenth century.Lionel Jobert (1829-1881) was born in France, but is described as having an Atlantic identity. A ship captain by trade, Jobert exploited unstable governmental conditions in Haiti and the United States to pursue his private interests. Drawing on previously unused sources, Stephen D. Bosworth allows us to view the Civil War from the perspective of a foreign participant whose life constitutes one colorful tile in the vast mosaic that makes up the history of the nineteenth-century Atlantic.

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Millions of soldiers and civilians passionately supported one side or the other in the American Civil War. For Colonel Lionel Jobert d'Epineuil of the Fifty-Third New York Volunteer Regiment, however, his own advancement mattered more than the outcome of the conflict. This biography analyzes the remarkable exploits of a man driven by ambition--and unhindered by scruples--to attain position and prestige in the Atlantic region during the second half of the nineteenth century.Lionel Jobert (1829-1881) was born in France, but is described as having an Atlantic identity. A ship captain by trade, Jobert exploited unstable governmental conditions in Haiti and the United States to pursue his private interests. Drawing on previously unused sources, Stephen D. Bosworth allows us to view the Civil War from the perspective of a foreign participant whose life constitutes one colorful tile in the vast mosaic that makes up the history of the nineteenth-century Atlantic.

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