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Can you compare and contrast the "cotton diplomacy"/"King Cotton" of the American South in Civil War times to the 1973 oil embargo by OPEC? Both seem to be diplomacy via embargo and I wonder how they compare.

by /u/KimberStormer in /r/AskHistorians

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