War of 1812 - Conflict for a Continent

Informationen zum Autor J. C. A. Stagg is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of two books on James Madison, as well as many articles on the political, military and diplomatic history of the early American republic. He has edited or co-edited seventeen volumes of the papers of James Madison. He currently serves on the editorial board of the War of 1812 Magazine and the board of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Commission. Klappentext "A short and easily-readable book that will explain to both Americans and Canadians why the War of 1812 mattered in the histories of their two nations. For those who seek insights into this subject during the bicentennial commemorations of the war! this book is the place to start. Its contents provide far more that merely the military history of the failed American campaigns against Canada between 1812 and 1815. Those events are set in the larger contexts of the development of the North American continent and the crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. The book is short! up-to-date! and contains a useful guide to other writings about the War of 1812"-- Zusammenfassung This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812! which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The book concludes that it resulted from an emerging nation-state trying to contend with the effects of rival European nationalisms. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. War; 2. 1812; 3. 1813; 4. 1814; 5. Peace.

Product details

• Authors: J C A Stagg, J. C. A. Stagg
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521726863
• ISBN: 978-0-521-72686-3
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Cambridge Essential Histories; Cambridge Essential Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; British Empire, military history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas