Beau Cleland awarded the Wiley Silver Prize

UCalgary History's Beau Cleland's book, Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy, has been awarded the Wiley–Silver Prize for the Best First Book in U.S. Civil War History.

The prize committee offered the following commendation:

“In recent years, scholarship on the transnational dimensions of the U.S. Civil War has tended to highlight the southern reaches of the Gulf and Caribbean, joined by the vast western North American continent. Beau Cleland’s Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria redirects our attention northward and eastward to narrate a wholly original view of the hemispheric conflict. He navigates the grassroots and oceanic marriage between obscure but powerful Confederates and their British allies in Bermuda, Canada, and the Bahamas. From unlikely political alliances, to privateering and filibustering expeditions, to blockade running, Cleland unveils the robust Atlantic alliance between partnerships in the Confederacy and Great Britain. His is a riveting and groundbreaking book.”

The full announcement is available here: https://olemiss.edu/civil-war-research/wiley-silver-prize/

Congratulations, Beau!