Fighting for America
Subtitle: the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871
By: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780253356604
Subjects: Manifest Destiny; Territorial expansion; Geopolitics; Colonies; Military History; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sixteenth-century background; title: Creating new frontiers, 1600-74; title: Britain, France, and the natives, 1674-1715; title: Multiple currents, 1715-53; title: War for dominance, 1754-64; title: Britain triumphant to America independent, 1765-76; title: Britain defeated, 1775-83; title: Flexing muscles, 1783-1811; title: Florida, but not Canada : from the War of 1812 to the Monroe Doctrine, 1812-23; title: Expansionism and its problems, 1823-43; title: From the Oregon question to the Gadsden Purchase, 1844-53; title: A great power in the making? : America, 1853-61; title: America divided, 1861-63; title: Winning the war, 1863-65; title: Settling the North American question, 1865-71; title: Postscript, 1871-2010.