The War of 1812 : conflict for a continent / J. C. A. Stagg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stagg, J. C. A. (John Charles Anderson), 1945- author.

Series:

Cambridge essential histories.

Cambridge essential histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--War of 1812.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; The War of 1812; cambridge essential histories; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I; II; III; IV; 1 War; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; 2 1812; I; II; III; IV; V; 3 1813; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; 4 1814; I; II; III; IV; V; 5 Peace; I; II; III; IV; An Essay on Sources; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22632-5

1-139-33408-5

1-280-39351-3

9786613571434

1-139-33745-9

1-139-03483-9

1-139-33990-7

1-139-34148-0

1-139-33658-4

1-139-33832-3

OCLC:

792684522