• The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies Алан Тейлор
    ISBN: 1400042658, 9781400042654
    Год издания: 2010
    Издательство: Knopf
    Язык: Английский

    In this deeply researched and clearly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. During the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution. Soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians fought in a northern borderland to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the British from Canada? Or would the British empire contain, divide, and ruin the shaky American republic? In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous boundaries, the leaders of…

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