Now available from Waveland Press, the author has skillfully organized the abundant learning of those who have authored so many specialized studies of the history of the United States from 1801 to 1815 in an interesting and accessible fashion. A combination of several monographs and documents and a sampling of earlier sources--press, polemics, reports, correspondence and memoirs--tell a coherent and illuminating story. The Thomas Jefferson portrayed in this text is no flaming radical, but instead a Whiggish moderate. Without overlooking his flaws, a sympathetic portrait is presented of the man who was more a friend to liberty than democracy and whose passion for peace provoked the contempt of Europe. James Madison is viewed as an adroit politician whose "constitutional republicanism" unfortunately hobbled his operations as a war president. In addition to these men, a whole cast of colorful individualists appears in these pages, from the deceitful Burr to the eccentric Randolph. The history of this period is examined in the disunity of the nation at the time of the War of 1812, the steps by which the nation was led into a European war and how, as a third-rate power fighting a naval colossus, the United States managed to avoid other than local disasters and emerge from the conflict with its independence vindicated and confirmed.

The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815.

Smelser, Marshall

Harper&Row

As one in a series surveying U.S. history, this volume focuses on the administrations of Jefferson and Madison and the War of 1812

The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815

History

Americas

Harpercollins College Div

The winning of independence

New Viewpoints, a division of Watts

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Biographies & Memoirs

Bison Books

In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, France's Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, were stakes as important as the Dominion of Canada. This book sketches the background strategy that led William Pitt to send an expedition to capture them, but it is chiefly the story of the campaign itself. Originally published in 1955. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759: A Study of Amphibious Warfare (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Omohundro Institute and UNC Press

In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, France's Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, were stakes as important as the Dominion of Canada. This book sketches the background strategy that led William Pitt to send an expedition to capture them, but it is chiefly the story of the campaign itself.Originally published in 1955.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759: A Study of Amphibious Warfare (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo)

The University of North Carolina Press

This 427-page hardcover was published in 1972 by Quadrangle.

The winning of independence (The Quadrangle bicentennial history of the American Revolution)

Quadrangle Books

The Congress founds the Navy, 1787-1798

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Greenwood Press

Now available from Waveland Press, the author has skillfully organized the abundant learning of those who have authored so many specialized studies of the history of the United States from 1801 to 1815 in an interesting and accessible fashion. A combination of several monographs and documents and a sampling of earlier sources--press, polemics, reports, correspondence and memoirs--tell a coherent and illuminating story. The Thomas Jefferson portrayed in this text is no flaming radical, but instead a Whiggish moderate. Without overlooking his flaws, a sympathetic portrait is presented of the man who was more a friend to liberty than democracy and whose passion for peace provoked the contempt of Europe. James Madison is viewed as an adroit politician whose "constitutional republicanism" unfortunately hobbled his operations as a war president. In addition to these men, a whole cast of colorful individualists appears in these pages, from the deceitful Burr to the eccentric Randolph. The history of this period is examined in the disunity of the nation at the time of the War of 1812, the steps by which the nation was led into a European war and how, as a third-rate power fighting a naval colossus, the United States managed to avoid other than local disasters and emerge from the conflict with its independence vindicated and confirmed.

The Democratic Republic: 1801-1815

Waveland Pr Inc.

The Campaign For The Sugar Islands 1759

Andesite Press

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