TY - BOOK AU - Blackett, R. J. M. AU - Blackett, R. J. M. TI - Divided Hearts : : Britain and the American Civil War SN - 9780807126455 U1 - 973.7 BLA PY - 2001/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - : Louisiana State University Press, . KW - History of North America KW - United States KW - United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Foreign public opinion, British KW - Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901 KW - États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Opinion publique britannique KW - Grande-Bretagne -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1837-1901 KW - Confederate States of America -- Foreign public opinion, British KW - Public opinion, British N1 - Divided hearts explores the passionate political strife that raged in Britain as a result of the American Civil War. Moving beyond Mary Ellison's 1972 landmark regional study of Lancashire cotton workers' reactions, R.J.M. Blackett opens the subject to a new, wider transatlantic context of influence and undertakes a deftly researched and written sociological, intellectual, and political examination of who in Britain supported the Union, who the Confederacy, and why N2 - Divided hearts explores the passionate political strife that raged in Britain as a result of the American Civil War. Moving beyond Mary Ellison's 1972 landmark regional study of Lancashire cotton workers' reactions, R.J.M. Blackett opens the subject to a new, wider transatlantic context of influence and undertakes a deftly researched and written sociological, intellectual, and political examination of who in Britain supported the Union, who the Confederacy, and why ER -