| Description |
1 online resource (x, 502 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Minstrelization and nationhood: "backside Albany," backlash, and the wartime origins of blackface minstrelsy / David Waldstreicher -- Meditating on slavery in the age of revolution: Barbary captivities and the whitening of American democracy / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest": Martha Meredith Read's Margaretta and the function of federalist fiction / Duncan Faherty -- Conceptual traffic: the Atlantic slave trade and the war of 1812 / Christen Mucher -- The radicalism of the First Seminole war and its consequences / Nathaniel Millett -- For the love of glory: Napoleonic imperatives in the early American republic / Matthew Rainbow Hale -- Military service and racial subjectivity in the war narratives of James Roberts and Isaac Hubbell / James M. Greene -- Naval biography, the War of 1812, and the contestation of American national identity / Tim Lanzendörfer -- The self-abstracting letters of war: Madison, Henry, and the executive author / Eric Wertheimer -- "Can you be surprised at my discouragement?": global emulation and the logic of colonization at the New York African Free School / Anna Mae Duane -- Widening the scope on the Indians' Old Northwest / Jonathan Todd Hancock -- Domestic fronts in the era of 1812: slavery, expansion, and familial struggles for sovereignty in the early-nineteenth-century Choctaw South / Dawn Peterson -- "Borders thick and foggy": mobility, community, and nation in a northern Indigenous region / Karen l. Marrero -- "Hindoo marriage" and national sovereignty in the early-nineteenth-century United States / Brian Connolly |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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National characteristics, American
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Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eustace, Nicole, editor.
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Teute, Fredrika J., editor.
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| ISBN |
1469631776 |
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9781469631776 |
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