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The Four Wars of 1812 book (French version)
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The Four Wars of 1812 is a fascinating and rich volume that presents a new view of a crucial event in North American history. The book includes extensive images from the Canadian War Museum's vast collection, and text by distinguished historian Dr. Peter MacLeod.
As described by the author: "Had the Americans managed to conquer Canada, I would be speaking in the northern Canadian War Museum discussing the Canadian war of liberation that made us the proud Americans we are today. It's very easy to look at the colonial wars and say these are guys in funny coats, in bright colours with muskets that don't work well and they're not relevant to us, but, in fact, these arewars that define us."
There is more than one side to every story—in the War of 1812, there were four. Four Wars of 1812 presents a new view of a crucial event in North American history.For Canadians, the War of 1812 was about American invasions. For Americans, it was about standing up to Britain. For the British, it was an irritating sideshow to the Napoleonic Wars raging in Europe. And for Native Americans—whose presence in the war is too often forgotten—it was a desperate struggle for freedom and independence as they fought to defend their homelands.
Canadians and Americans have used the War of 1812 as a source for nation-building narratives, centred on their stories of the war. But all four groups fought and remembered their own War of 1812.
Written to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the infamous war's outbreak, this beautifully designed volumerecasts the conflict as a war of four perspectives—and four stories.
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The Four Wars of 1812 is a fascinating and rich volume that presents a new view of a crucial event in North American history. The book includes extensive images from the Canadian War Museum's vast collection, and text by distinguished historian Dr. Peter MacLeod.
As described by the author: "Had the Americans managed to conquer Canada, I would be speaking in the northern Canadian War Museum discussing the Canadian war of liberation that made us the proud Americans we are today. It's very easy to look at the colonial wars and say these are guys in funny coats, in bright colours with muskets that don't work well and they're not relevant to us, but, in fact, these arewars that define us."
There is more than one side to every story—in the War of 1812, there were four. Four Wars of 1812 presents a new view of a crucial event in North American history.For Canadians, the War of 1812 was about American invasions. For Americans, it was about standing up to Britain. For the British, it was an irritating sideshow to the Napoleonic Wars raging in Europe. And for Native Americans—whose presence in the war is too often forgotten—it was a desperate struggle for freedom and independence as they fought to defend their homelands.
Canadians and Americans have used the War of 1812 as a source for nation-building narratives, centred on their stories of the war. But all four groups fought and remembered their own War of 1812.
Written to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the infamous war's outbreak, this beautifully designed volumerecasts the conflict as a war of four perspectives—and four stories.
*net value of purchases, before taxes and shipping
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121582
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