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• 1. Introduction Donald R. Hickey and Connie D. Clark
• 2. The International Context of the War of 1812 Jeremy Black
• 3. American "Independence is Not Threatened": British Priorities in the War of 1812 John R. Grodzinski
• 4. The War on the High Seas Andrew Lambert
• 5. Privateering, Prizes, and Profits: The Private War of 1812 Faye Kert
• 6. The War on the Lakes David Curtis Skaggs
• 7. The War in the Chesapeake Christopher T. George
• 8. War on the Gulf Coast: American Ascendancy and the New Order Gene Allen Smith
• 9. Mars in the Wilderness: Weapons and Tactics of the War of 1812 Douglas W. DeCroix
• 10. Aboriginal Peoples and Their Multiple Wars of 1812 Carl Benn
• 11. The American Home Front, 1812-1814 J.C.A. Stagg
• 12. Heavy Lies the Crown: The Canadian Social Context of the War of 1812, James Tyler Robertson
• 13. The British Home Front Walter L. Arnstein
• 14. American Blacks in the War of 1812 Alan Taylor
• 15. War Stories and Love Stories: Conflict and Culture in the War of 1812 Nicole Eustace
• 16. The Treaty of Ghent Robert McColley
• 17. A Lasting Legacy: How a Little War Shaped the Transatlantic World Donald R. Hickey
• 18. War of 1812 Memorials and Commemorations Ronald J. Dale
• 19. Remembering the Forgotten Conflict: Two Hundred Years of Literature on the War of 1812 Donald R. Hickey
• 20. War of 1812 Chronology Ralph E. Eshelman Notes on Contributors Index.
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The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native people and the Spanish were also involved in the war's interrelated conflicts. Often overlooked, the War of 1812 has been the subject of an explosion of new research over the past twenty-five years. The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812 brings together the insights of this research through an array of fresh essays by leading scholars in the field, offering an overview of current understandings of the war that will be a vital reference for students and researchers alike. The essays in this volume examine a wide range of military, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the war. With full consideration given to American, Canadian, British, and native viewpoints, the international group of contributors place the war in national and international context, chart the course of events in its different theaters, consider the war's legacy and commemoration, and examine the roles of women, African Americans, and natives. Capturing the state of the field in a single volume, this handbook is a must-have resource for anyone with an interest in early America.
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Long overshadowed by the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 remains a largely forgotten conflict. Its origins as part of the larger Napoleonic wars layered complex issues that to this day make the conflict difficult to understand. The bicentennial of the War of 1812 is now upon us. With an engaging question-and-answer format, this book offers a concise and informative introduction to the War of 1812, clearing much of the fog that surrounds it.
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• Quand les États-Unis ont failli disparaître / Nicole Bacharan
• Le contexte
• Les États-Unis, une naissance dans un contexte instable
• Provocations anglo-canadiennes, résistances et raids indiens, violations des droits des États-Unis
• Les objectifs américains face aux objectifs anglo-canadiens
• 1812
• La guerre dans le Nord; offensives et retraites autour des Grands Lacs
• La guerre navale. Corsaires américains contre la Royal Navy
• 1813
• La guerre dans le Nord-Ouest
• La guerre sur les Grands Lacs
• L'incursion américaine dans le Bas-Canada
• Le soulèvement des Creeks Red Sticks ; le début de la guerre dans le Sud
• L'US Navy poursuit sa lutte. Incursion américaine dans le Pacifique
• 1814
• Atermoiements et piétinements le long de la frontière canadienne
• Les soubresauts dans l'Ouest
• La Chesapeake campaign, incendie de Washington et siège de Baltimore
• Fin de l'aventure américaine dans le Pacifique. EUS Navy tient tête à la Royal Navy
• La guerre dans le Sud; la fin du soulèvement creek. Les débarquements britanniques en Floride et en Louisiane
• La paix de Gand et le statu quo ante bellum
• Décembre 1814-1815 Les derniers feux
• Le ralliement des populations francophones de Louisiane à la cause américaine ; les Baratariens des frères Lafitte ; la bataille de La Nouvelle-Orléans
• Les ultimes combats terrestres
• La fin de la guerre en mer
• En guise de conclusion.

"En 1812, alors que la Grande Armée de Napoléon entre en territoire russe, une autre guerre s'allume en Amérique du Nord. Elle oppose les États-Unis d'Amérique à leur ancienne métropole, l'Angleterre. Les hostilités commencent par une invasion américaine de la province britannique du Haut-Canada. La réplique des Anglais, alliés aux Indiens, est cinglante. Les batailles terrestres se poursuivent autour des Grands Lacs, puis sur la côte Est et dans le Sud, tandis que sur mer la jeune US Navy défie la prestigieuse Royal Navy. Le 8 janvier 1815, à la Nouvelle-Orléans, les Américains remportent sur terre une grande victoire, après qu'une paix entérinant le statu quo ante bellum a été signée à Gand entre les belligérants. "L'autre 1812" est cependant bien l'aube de la puissance américaine. Plus jamais un pays européen ne sera en mesure de dicter par les armes ses volontés aux États-Unis. Ce livre, le premier écrit en français sur le sujet, retrace toutes les phases politiques et militaires de cette guerre déterminante, éclipsée à l'époque par le conflit qui embrasait l'Europe."--P. [4] of cover.

• Preface to the first edition
• Preface to the bicentennial edition
• Introduction
• The road to war, 1801-1812
• The declaration of war
• The Baltimore riots
• The Campaign of 1812
• Raising men and money
• The Campaign of 1813
• The last embargo
• The British counteroffensive
• The crisis of 1814
• The Hartford Convention
• The Treaty of Ghent
• Conclusion.

This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain students, historians, and general readers alike. Donald R. Hickey explores the military, diplomatic, and domestic history of America's second war with Great Britain, bringing the study up to date with recent scholarship on all aspects of the war, from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. With additional information on the British forces, American Indians, and military operations The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition explains how the war promoted American nationalism and manifest destiny, stimulated peacetime defence spending, and enhanced America's reputation abroad. Hickey also shows that the war sparked bloody conflicts between pro-war Republican and anti-war Federalist neighbours and solidified the United States' antipathy toward the British. Donald R. Hickey is a professor of history at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska. He is the author of seven books, including Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812, and numerous articles on the early republic.
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• 1. War
• 2. 1812
• 3. 1813
• 4. 1814
• 5. Peace.
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This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 1812-15 were shaped by the larger crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. In synthesizing and reinterpreting scholarship on the war, Professor J. C. A. Stagg focuses on the war as a continental event, highlighting its centrality to Canadian nationalism and state development. The book introduces the war to students and general readers, concluding that it resulted in many ways from an emerging nation-state trying to contend with the effects of rival European nationalisms, both in Europe itself and in the Atlantic world.
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• The road to war
• Amateurs to arms
• Disaster at Detroit, debacle at Queenston
• American success at sea
• Battle for the lakes
• The battles of 1813
• Warships and privateers
• The Niagara front ablaze
• Britain invades America
• War in the South and the Battle of New Orleans.

The complete story of the great conflict between a young United States of America and imperial Great Britain From the roots of the conflict, through a profile of the two armies, to descriptions of the great battles and events of the war this work captures in one lavishly illustrated volume one of America's first great crises. Scarcely three decades after the United States won its independence, the massive strength of Mother country returned, seeking to enforce its will on its wayward offspring. The combats were various in scale and ferocity, stretching from the wilds of the Canadian border to the swamps of New Orleans, while on the high seas the fledgling American navy slugged it out bravely with fearsome Brittania, achieving shocking success. On land the Americans initially had less luck and witnessed the burning of their new capital at Washington DC by British redcoats, even as a gallant bastion off Baltimore continued to hold its flag high beneath the "rockets' red glare." Though unnecessary at the end for geopolitical purposes (the war had already ended), General Andrew Jackson punctuated the conflict profoundly with a disastrous defeat of Wellington's veterans near the Crescent City. Author Arnold Blumberg is a Visiting Scholar at the History Department of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and a contributor to a number of leading military history journals. Illustrated with 100 images of the fighting and the soldiers, this book illuminates an exciting, even if frequently forgotten, episode in our history.
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• Series Foreword Preface Chronology The War of
• 1812: An Overview Thomas Jefferson's Grand Experiment: The Restrictive System and the Failure of Diplomacy Mr. Madison's War: Country, Congress, and the Presidency in America's First Declared War All Were Surprised: The Quest for Canada and the War at Sea "We Have Met the Enemy": The Campaigns of 1813 Enemy of My Enemy: Native Americans in the War of 1812
• 1814: The Year of Crisis The Treaty of Ghent Biographies of Important People in the War Primary Documents of the War Golssary Bibliography Index.
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Entangled in the Napoleonic conflicts on the European continent, the reasons for fighting the War of 1812 are far from clear. Once the conflict got underway, both the United States and Great Britain waged it in great confusion and finally concluded it inconclusively. Meanwhile, the war deeply divided American sentiment, possibly more than did any other war, including Vietnam. With an overview essay providing historical background, seven essays on specific topics related to the war, biographies of the major players, ten important primary documents, and a timeline, this book will serve as an introduction to these events, both to provide a clear understanding of them and to supply the student with major historical interpretations of the war's causes, progress, and consequences. Renowned historians David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler put the War of 1812 in historical and social context. In addition to a general overview, other essays examine Jefferson's ineffective use of sanctions as a diplomatic tool, the difficulties a young nation had in fighting and paying for a war against a major power, U.S.- Indian relations, and the Treaty of Ghent which ended the conflict but left many issues unresolved. Detailed biographies of key players enrich the reader's understanding of the time period, and promary source documents, ranging from Madison's recommendation for war to a British soldier's description of the burning of Washington DC, and to General Andrew Jackson's account of his great victory at New Orleans bring to life the controversial and destructive nature of the War, and a selection of portraits and cartoons add a valuable visual component to this all-in-one resource guide to this forgotten war.
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This title is History Book Club bestseller. This is an unabridged edition. 'A penetrating analysis of prewar society...Highly recommended as an inclusive political, military, and social treatment of a customarily neglected war' - "ALA Booklist".
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