Fighting for America [electronic resource] : the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 / Jeremy Black.
Material type: TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011Description: xvii, 470 p. : illISBN: 9780253005618 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Manifest Destiny | Geopolitics -- North America -- History | Geopolitics -- United States -- History | United States -- Territorial expansion | North America -- History, Military | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History | France -- Colonies -- America -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 970.01 LOC classification: E179.5 | .B66 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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