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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control ofNorth America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hern n Cort?'s in modernMexico in 1519 to 1871 when! with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal ofmost British garrisons! Britain accepted American mastery in North America. In thiswide-ranging narrative! Black makes clear that the process by which America gainedsupremacy was far from inevitable. The story Black tells is one of conflict! diplomacy! geopolitics! and politics. The eventual result was the creation of aUnited States of America that stretched from Atlantic to Pacific and dominated NorthAmerica. The gradual withdrawal of France and Spain! the British accommodation tothe expanding U.S. reality! the impact of the American Civil War! and thesubjugation of Native peoples! are all carefully drawn out. Black emphasizescontingency not Manifest Destiny! and reconceptualizes American exceptionalism totake note of the pressures and impact of international competition. Zusammenfassung A sweeping history of nations grappling for control of a continent Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
