Frank J. Merli (1929–2000) was Professor of History at Queens College in the City University of New York. At the time of his death he was writing what amounted to a multi-volume sequel to Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861–1865, portions of which are published under the title The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War (Indiana University Press 2004).

David M. Fahey is Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio and author of Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars and co-editor of Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia. He lives in Oxford, Ohio.

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List of Illustrations
Frank J. Merli (1929<N>2000)
1. The International Dimension of the American Civil War
2. Toward the CSS Alabama
3. The Law of the Alabama
4. E. D. Adams, Roundell Palmer, and the Escape of the Alabama
5. Captain Butcher's Memoir of the Alabama's Escape Edited with Renata Eley Long
6. Raphael Semmes and the Challenge at Cherbourg
7. The Confederacy's Chinese Fleet, 1861<N>1867
Appendix: Publications of Frank J. Merli
Notes
Works Cited
Index