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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicole Eustace |
ISBN: | 9780812244311 0812244311 |
OCLC Number: | 768792983 |
Description: | xvii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Preface emotion, persuasion, and the meaning of war -- Celebrating love, liberty, and progeny: United States, circa 1811 -- Failures of feeling as national disasters: Detroit, August 1812 -- Romantic stories of republican conquest on the Great Lakes: Lake Erie, September 1813 -- Demographic strategies and the defeat of Tecumseh: Moraviantown, Canada, October 1813 -- Liberty, slavery, and the burning of the capital: Washington, D.C., August 1814 -- Conclusion ardor and triumph: New Orleans, January 1815. |
Series Title: | Early American studies. |
Other Titles: | Eighteen twelve |
Responsibility: | Nicole Eustace. |
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"With this second book, Nicole Eustace establishes herself as one of the premier cultural historians of the early American republic. Eustace paints the War of 1812 as a moral as well as emotional conflict. She shows how the war's supporters pushed the idea that all Americans could contribute to the nation by expanding the population, and that love, marriage and propagation were key forms of American liberty as well as expressions of patriotism. Women and even African-Americans could be enlisted in parts of this project. The only people left out completely were the original population of American Indians. In making this argument, Eustace shows the importance of the war to American history on the eve of its bicentennial."-C. Dallett Hemphill, author of Siblings: Brothers and Sisters in American History "Probably no book published on the occasion of the bicentenary of the War of 1812 offers so many new insights into the War of 1812 as Eustace's. The role of gender and race in popular representations of the war but also their relation to the burgeoning American nationalism in the war years had hitherto yet to be addressed in such a compelling manner."-Reviews in History "This is far and away the most important book written on the War of 1812 in several decades."-David Waldstreicher, Temple University "Insisting that the pen is mightier than the sword, Eustace presents the War of 1812 more as a cultural event than a military one and examines the nation that emerged from the war, re-formed by aggressive Republican party rhetoric. . . . A powerful analysis of the political rhetoric the war generated."-Carroll Smith Rosenberg, Journal of American History Read more...


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