Fighting for America - The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of more than 100 books including War and Technology (IUP, 2013). Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Sixteenth-Century Background

2. Creating New Frontiers, 1600-74

3. Britain, France and the Natives, 1674-1715

4. Multiple Currents, 1715-53

5. War for Dominance, 1754-64

6. Britain Triumphant to America Independent, 1765-76

7. Britain Defeated, 1775-83

8. Flexing Muscles, 1783-1811

9. Florida, But Not Canada: From the War of 1812 to the Monroe Doctrine, 1812-1823

10. Expansionism and its Problems, 1823-43

11. From the Oregon Question to the Gadsden Purchase, 1844-53

12. A Great Power in the Making? America, 1853-61

13. America Divided, 1861-63

14. Winning the War, 1863-5

15. Settling the North American Question, 1865-71

16. Postscript, 1871-2010

Conclusions

Notes

Index

About the author

Jeremy Black

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Black, Jeremy M. Black, Jeremymorni Black, Black Jeremy
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2014
• EAN: 9780253014818
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01481-8
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous