Fighting for America the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 /

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Main Author: Black, Jeremy
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.