Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist -- PART ONE: "A CONSCIOUSNESS OF DOING SOMETHING FINE" -- Three Months in the Confederate Army -- The CADET Letters to the Mobile Register -- PART TWO: "WHAT PREVENTS THE RECOGNITION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES?" -- An "Apology" to the Tribune -- Henry Hotze's Commission -- The "Washington's Birthday" Leader -- "The Question of Recognition of the Confederate States" -- The Index on Recognition -- The Ebb and Flow of Recognition: Diplomatic and Personal Correspondence -- A Primer on Southern Society -- The Genius of the Editor -- A Plan to Take the Index to America -- PART THREE: "THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN" -- Excerpt from "Analytical Introduction and Copious Historical Notes" -- "The Position and Treatment of Women among the Various Races of Men as Proof of Their Moral and Intellectual Diversity" -- The Register Reviews Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races -- Letters to Gobineau -- The Index on Racialism -- Appendix: Original Descriptive Roll of the Mobile Cadets, Co. A, Third Alabama Regiment Infantry -- Notes -- Index.

The life of Henry Hotze encompasses the history of antebellum Mobile, Confederate military recruitment, Civil War diplomacy and international intrigue, and the development of a Darwinian-based effort to find scientific evidence for differences among human "races." When civil war broke out in his adopted country, Hotze enthusiastically assumed the mindset of the young Southern secessionist, serving first as newspaper correspondent and Confederate soldier until the Confederate government selected him as an agent, with instructions to promote the Southern cause in London. There he founded, edited, and wrote most of the content for The Index, a pro-Southern paper, as a part of the effort to convince the British Government to extend recognition to the Confederacy. Among the arguments Hotze employed were adaptations of the scientific racism of the period, which attempted to establish a rational basis for assumptions of racial difference. After the collapse of the Confederacy in 1865, Hötze remained in Europe, where he became an active partisan and promoter of the ideas of Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882) whose work Essai sur L'inégalité des Races Humaines was a founding document in racism's struggle for intellectual respectability. This work consists of a biographical essay on Hotze; his contributions to Mobile newspapers during his military service in 1861; his correspondence with Confederate officials during his service in London; articles he published in London to influence British and European opinion; and his correspondence with, and published work in support of, Gobineau.

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