<DIV><DIV><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">The exhaustive, definitive study of Southern attempts to gain international support for the Confederacy by leveraging the cotton supply for European intervention during the Civil War. Using previously untapped sources from Britain and France, along with documents from the Confederacy&rsquo;s state department, Frank Owsley&rsquo;s <I>King Cotton Diplomacy</i> is the first archival-based study of Confederate diplomacy.</p></DIV>