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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Life of General Lewis Cass: Comprising an Account of His Military Service in the North-west During the War with Great Britain, His Diplomatic Career and Civil History
Author: Life of General Lewis Cass: comprising an account of his military services in the North-West during the war with Great Britain, his diplomatic career and civil history. To which is appended, a Sketch of the public and private history of Major-General W. O. Butler ... With two portraits
Author: Lewis CASSLife of General Lewis Cass
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Compaign biographies of the candidates for president and vice president on the Democratic ticket.
The Era of the Civil War--1820-1876
Author: Louise A. Arnold-FriendPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Special Bibliography
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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1812
Author: Jon LatimerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674039957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Listen to a short interview with Jon Latimer Host: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & Crane In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war for survival. The Americans aimed both to assert their nationhood on the global stage and to expand their territory northward and westward. Americans would later find in this war many iconic moments in their national story--the bombardment of Fort McHenry (the inspiration for Francis Scott Key's Star Spangled Banner); the Battle of Lake Erie; the burning of Washington; the death of Tecumseh; Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans--but their war of conquest was ultimately a failure. Even the issues of neutrality and impressment that had triggered the war were not resolved in the peace treaty. For Britain, the war was subsumed under a long conflict to stop Napoleon and to preserve the empire. The one lasting result of the war was in Canada, where the British victory eliminated the threat of American conquest, and set Canadians on the road toward confederation. Latimer describes events not merely through the eyes of generals, admirals, and politicians but through those of the soldiers, sailors, and ordinary people who were directly affected. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, and memoirs, he crafts an intimate narrative that marches the reader into the heat of battle.
Constructing American Lives
Author: Scott E. CasperPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.