Author: Enoch LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
An Oration, Pronounced at Worcester, in Commemoration of American Independence
Author: Enoch LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1801-1815
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
The Weight of Vengeance
Author: Troy BickhamPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199969191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In early 1815, Secretary of State James Monroe reviewed the treaty with Britain that would end the War of 1812. The United States Navy was blockaded in port; much of the army had not been paid for nearly a year; the capital had been burned. The treaty offered an unexpected escape from disaster. Yet it incensed Monroe, for the name of Great Britain and its negotiators consistently appeared before those of the United States. "The United States have acquired a certain rank amongst nations, which is due to their population and political importance," he brazenly scolded the British diplomat who conveyed the treaty, "and they do not stand in the same situation as at former periods." Monroe had a point, writes Troy Bickham. In The Weight of Vengeance, Bickham provides a provocative new account of America's forgotten war, underscoring its significance for both sides by placing it in global context. The Napoleonic Wars profoundly disrupted the global order, from India to Haiti to New Orleans. Spain's power slipped, allowing the United States to target the Floridas; the Haitian slave revolt contributed to the Louisiana Purchase; fears that Britain would ally with Tecumseh and disrupt the American northwest led to a pre-emptive strike on his people in 1811. This shifting balance of power provided the United States with the opportunity to challenge Britain's dominance of the Atlantic world. And it was an important conflict for Britain as well. Powerful elements in the British Empire so feared the rise of its former colonies that the British government sought to use the War of 1812 to curtail America's increasing maritime power and its aggressive territorial expansion. And by late 1814, Britain had more men under arms in North America than it had in the Peninsular War against Napoleon, with the war with America costing about as much as its huge subsidies to European allies. Troy Bickham has given us an authoritative, lucidly written global account that transforms our understanding of this pivotal war.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: America on the Brink
Author: Richard BuelPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250106540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The fascinating story of how New England Federalists threatened to dissolve the Union by making a separate peace with England during the War of 1812. Many people would be surprised to learn that the struggle between Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party defined--and jeopardized--the political life of the early American republic. Richard Buel Jr.'s America on the Brink looks at why the Federalists, who worked so hard to consolidate the federal government before 1800, went to great lengths to subvert it after Jefferson's election. In addition to taking the side of the British in the diplomatic dance before the war, the Federalists did everything they could to impede the prosecution of the war, even threatening the Madison Administration with a separate peace for New England in 1814. Readers fascinated by the world of the Founding Fathers will come away from this riveting account with a new appreciation for how close the new nation came to falling apart almost fifty years before the Civil War.
The General Repository
Author: Andrews NortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Date index
Author: Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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