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James Madison
Shell Education 2005; US$ 8.99James Madison made great contributions to the United States. During his presidency, he declared war on Great Britain. Not all of his decisions met public approval, but he was well respected throughout his lifetime and one of the most influential founding fathers. more...
American Privateers in the War of 1812
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 75.00During the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy numbered several dozen ships and captured fewer than 200 British vessels. American privateers, on the other hand, commanded more than 200 vessels and captured more than 1,000 British ships. The privateers proved the only American force that consistently threatened Britain throughout the Atlantic, especially along... more...
Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 36.00Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic.... more...
A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America - Volume 2
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 25.49Volume 2 of 2.I must confess I know little, if anything, about the War of 1812 with the USA, which is the subject of this book. For anybody else in the same boat, who wants to learn about it, this 1000-page account will go a long way towards remedying that lack of knowledge. It is a contemporary account, published a few years after the war, which officially... more...
Liberty & Learning
The James Madison Center 2012; US$ 4.99Liberty & Learning: the Essential James Madison is a highly readible account of the life and times of James Madison. Philip Bigler, the former director of the James Madison Center and the 1998 National Teacher of the Year, skillfully explains Madison's contributions to the development of republican government and assesses his relevancy to contemporary... more...
Tecumseh and Brock
House of Anansi Press 2012; US$ 24.95At the turn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is at the height of its ascendancy; Napoleonic France is struggling to maintain its position as a world power; and the incumbent American empire is quickly expanding its territory, while the Native peoples struggle to establish their own confederacy, their own independent nation. Bestselling... more...
The War of 1812
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 145.00Although the American Revolution ended in 1783, tensions between the United States and Britain over disruptions to American trade, the impressment of American merchant sailors by British ships, and British support of Native American resistance to American expansion erupted in another military conflict nearly three decades later. Scarcely remembered... more...
Martin Van Buren
Henry Holt and Co. 2005; US$ 23.99The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic champion Andrew Jackson. Van Buren, a native Dutch speaker,... more...
Andrew Jackson
Aladdin 2010; US$ 9.99Dear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and experiences that influenced the person's development. History is fleshed out with fictionalized details, and conversations have been... more...









