1812 : a nation emerges / Sidney Hart, Rachael Penman ; with essays by Donald R. Hickey, J.C.A. Stagg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Portrait Gallery in cooperation with Rowman & Littlefield : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, c2012.Description: xi, 284 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 1935623095 : HRD
  • 9781935623090
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.5/2 23
LOC classification:
  • E354 .H37 2012
Contents:
James Madison's America / J.C.A. Stagg -- The War of 1812 : a military history / Donald R. Hickey -- Art and war : truth and myth / Sidney Hart -- Catalogue -- Chronology.
Summary: The War of 1812 completed the struggle for American independence that began in 1776 and propelled a new nation forward. This book accompanies the National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the same name and features 115 color images, an introduction by one of the exhibition's curators, and two essays by leading historians. Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the conflict, this book explores how the United States was transformed and unified by the individuals who took part in that seminal event. It provides an overview of the battles, the negotiations for peace, the aftermath, known as "the era of good feelings", and the great commercial, industrial, and cultural expansion that followed, which to some marked the birth of the United States as a world power.
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Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, June 15, 2012-Jan. 27, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

James Madison's America / J.C.A. Stagg -- The War of 1812 : a military history / Donald R. Hickey -- Art and war : truth and myth / Sidney Hart -- Catalogue -- Chronology.

The War of 1812 completed the struggle for American independence that began in 1776 and propelled a new nation forward. This book accompanies the National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the same name and features 115 color images, an introduction by one of the exhibition's curators, and two essays by leading historians. Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the conflict, this book explores how the United States was transformed and unified by the individuals who took part in that seminal event. It provides an overview of the battles, the negotiations for peace, the aftermath, known as "the era of good feelings", and the great commercial, industrial, and cultural expansion that followed, which to some marked the birth of the United States as a world power.

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