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Fighting for America : the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 /
Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted American mastery in Nor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sixteenth-century background
- Creating new frontiers, 1600-74
- Britain, France, and the natives, 1674-1715
- Multiple currents, 1715-53
- War for dominance, 1754-64
- Britain triumphant to America independent, 1765-76
- Britain defeated, 1775-83
- Flexing muscles, 1783-1811
- Florida, but not Canada : from the War of 1812 to the Monroe Doctrine, 1812-23
- Expansionism and its problems, 1823-43
- From the Oregon question to the Gadsden Purchase, 1844-53
- A great power in the making? : America, 1853-61
- America divided, 1861-63
- Winning the war, 1863-65
- Settling the North American question, 1865-71
- Postscript, 1871-2010.