Evangelicals by Mark A Noll

Evangelicals by Mark A Noll

'Mersey Built' chronicles the little-known commercial battle that raged between North and South during the American Civil War. The South relied on Europe for its military supplies, which the North tried to stop with a naval blockade of all Southern ports. The South retaliated by destroying Northern merchant ships on the high seas, using war ships, secretly procured from British shipyards and smuggled out of Britain by sympathetic British captains using British crews. The Charleston-based business empire headed by George Trenholm provided a conduit for Confederate finance with its Liverpool branch acting as bankers for the Confederacy's procurement agents. Merseyside, with its extensive docks and numerous shipyards quickly became the epicenter of Confederate operations in Europe. Several British businessmen bought ships specifically to run supplies through the Union blockade, leaving relationships between the United States and Britain strained, close to breaking point.

The book relates the history of Trenholm's commercial empire, its pre-war expansion into Liverpool and the pivotal role it played in supporting the Confederate war effort. The involvement of other Liverpool-based entrepreneurs and their successes and failures in blockade-running is described. Background histories of the Merseyside ship builders who constructed warships and blockade runners for the Confederacy are included as well as several mini-biographies of the Liverpool-based captains who smuggled out warships and braved the Union blockade. Details of each ship built on Merseyside for involvement in the Civil War are listed. The role of the United States consular service and its extensive, Liverpool-based, spy ring is described, as are the efforts of the United States ambassador in London to influence British government policy on neutrality.

The author, a direct descendant of a Liverpool ship builder, and a blockade-running captain, brings new insights and previously unpublished facts to light in this fascinating chapter of history.

George M. Marsden is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus at Notre Dame, where he taught from 1992-2008. He has taught history at Calvin College and the history of Christianity in America at The Divinity School of Duke University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, St. Andrews University, and Harvard Divinity School. Marsden is the author of many books, including Fundamentalism and American Culture, The Soul of the American University, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, and Jonathan Edwards: A Life.

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ISBN 13	9780802876959
ISBN 10	0802876951
Titel	Evangelicals
Autor	Mark A Noll
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-11-25
Seitenanzahl	336
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