What so proudly we hailed : essays on the contemporary meaning of the War of 1812 / Pietro S. Nivola, Peter J. Kastor, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nivola, Pietro S.

Kastor, Peter J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--War of 1812--Political aspects.

United States.

United States--History--War of 1812--Influence.

United States--Politics and government--1809-1817.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war. The war is waged without adequatelypreparing the means to finance it or readying suitable contingency plans to contend with its unanticipated complications. The executive branch suffers from managerial confusion and in-fighting. The military invades a foreign country, expecting to be greeted as liberators, but encounters stiff, unwelcome resistance. The conflict drags on longer than predicted. It ends rather inconclusively-or so it seems in its aftermath.Sou

Contents:

Introduction / Pietro S. Nivola and Peter J. Kastor

"Party war" of 1812 : yesterday's lessons for today's partisan politics / Pietro S. Nivola

The War of 1812 and the rise of American military power / Stephen Budiansky

Dual nationalisms : legacies of the war of 1812 / Alan Taylor

James Madison, presidential power, and civil liberties in the War of 1812 / Benjamin Wittes and Ritika Singh

The war over federalism : the constitutional battles in the War of 1812 / Peter J. Kastor.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8157-4568-0

1-283-61331-X

9786613925763

0-8157-2415-2

OCLC:

812925857