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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 9: Increasing Conflict and War, 1805-1815
Gregory E. Dowd. A Spirited Resistance:
The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 (1992).
Hailed by many as one of the best new works
on Native American history, this well-written study covers the efforts by Indians
to unite in defense of their lands and heritages, culminating in the struggles
during the War of 1812.
R. David Edmunds. The Shawnee Prophet (1983);
Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership (1984).
Each of these biographies is a masterpiece,
but taken together they present the most complete recounting of the lives and
accomplishments of these two fascinating Shawnee brothers and their historical
world.
William F. Fowler, Jr. Jack Tars and Commodores
(1984).
A look at one of the more interesting aspects
of the War of 1812: the sea battles and the men who fought them.
Donald Hickey. The War of 1812; A Forgotten
Conflict (1989).
Arguably the best single-volume history of
the war, encyclopedic in content, but so colorfully written that it will hold
anyone’s attention.
Reginald Horsman. The Diplomacy of the New
Republic, 1776-1815 (1986).
An excellent overview of American diplomacy
from the outbreak of the revolution through the War of 1812, this work makes
the problems that beset Jefferson’s and then Madison’s governments much more
understandable.
Drew McCoy. The Last of the Fathers: James
Madison and the Republican Legacy (1989).
A brief but full treatment of Madison and his
role in making the early republic.
Robert A. Rutland. Madison’s Alternatives:
The Jeffersonian Republicans and the Coming of War, 1805-1812 (1975).
An interesting review of the events leading
up to the outbreak of war in 1812 and the various alternatives Jefferson and
Madison had to choose from in facing the evolving diplomatic and political crises.
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