Warring for America : cultural contests in the era of 1812 /
"The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | "The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensions endemic to the new nation, Americans of all kinds fought for country on the battleground of culture. The War of 1812 increased interest in the American democratic project and elicited calls for national unity, yet the essays collected in this volume suggest that the United States did not emerge from war in 1815 having resolved the Revolution's fundamental challenges or achieved a stable national identity. The cultural rifts of the early republican period remained vast and unbridged."--Publisher's description |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America EBSCO eBook History Collection Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 502 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1469631776 9781469631776 |
