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What So Proudly We Hailed : Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812 /

With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war. The war is waged without adequately preparing the means to finance it or readying suitable contingency plans to contend with its unanticipated complications. The executive...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kastor, Peter J., Nivola, Pietro S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Some explanatory notes : places, people, and politics during the War of 1812
  • Introduction / Pietro S. Nivola and Peter J. Kastor
  • The "party war" of 1812 : yesterday's lessons for today's partisan politics / Pietro S. Nivola
  • The War of 1812 and the rise of American military power / Stephen Budiansky
  • Dual nationalisms : legacies of the war of 1812 / Alan Taylor
  • James Madison, presidential power, and civil liberties in the War of 1812 / Benjamin Wittes and Ritika Singh
  • The war over federalism : the constitutional battles in the War of 1812 / Peter J. Kastor.