He is a Lecturer And Associate director of the political History And Leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. Right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so its a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. Just tell us a little bit about your book. Basic information for those who havent had a chance to read it yet. Thank you in absolutely. Thanks to the now center for having us today and thanks to the Virginia Book festival for including us. Im looking forward to a great event. So my book looks at international influences on the creation of the confederacy. As the civil war opened and the spring of 1861 the newly declared confederate states of america, of course had to fight against the north against the United States, but much of their attention was also perhaps unexpectedly abroad. So i have one example the editors of the richmond daily dispatch wrote in ma
Further ado, please let me introduce our speakers. Our first Speaker Today will be nl Tucker Author of newest born of nations european national movements. Nationalist movements and the creation of the confederacy. She uses an historian of the us south and civil war in an international perspective. She is an assistant professor of history at the university of north georgia. Thank you anne for being here and let me introduce our our second Panelist Today and that is adrian brettle who is author of our second book colossal ambitions confederate planning for a post civil war world. He is a Lecturer And Associate director of the political History And Leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. Right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so its a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. Just tell us a little bit about your book. Basic information for those who haven