Episode Details

In this episode, Luke talks with Don Doyle, the author of many books, including The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War.

The conversation touches on many topics, including how the North and South sold their story of the battle to the rest of the world; the smörgåsbord of Union soldiers from across the globe; the Civil War as a tectonic struggle between republicanism and monarchismin in the context of the failed European revolutions of 1848; free labor versus enslaved labor, and what Karl Marx said about the Civil War; the return of former colonial powers to Latin America and the republican struggle in Mexico; and the global impact of the North’s victory against the southern slaveocracy. I plan to speak with Don again about his latest book, The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World, described as a sequel to The Cause of all Nations.