The essays in this volume examine a wide range of military, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the war. The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812 brings together the insights of this research through an array of fresh essays by leading scholars in the field, offering an overview of current understandings of the war that will be a vital reference for students and researchers alike. Often overlooked, the War of 1812 has been the subject of an explosion of new research over the past 25 years. Native people and the Spanish were also involved in the war’s interrelated conflicts. The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE WAR OF 1812
2 The International Context of the War of 1812ģ American “Independence Is Not Threatened”: British Priorities in the War of 1812ĥ Privateering, Prizes, and Profits: The Private War of 1812Ĩ War on the Gulf Coast: American Ascendancy and the New Orderĩ Mars in the Wilderness: Weapons and Tactics of the War of 1812ġ0 Aboriginal Peoples and Their Multiple Wars of 1812ġ2 Heavy Lies the Crown: The Canadian Social Context of the War of 1812ġ5 War Stories and Love Stories: Conflict and Culture in the War of 1812ġ7 A Lasting Legacy: How a Little War Shaped the Transatlantic Worldġ8 War of 1812 Memorials and Commemorationsġ9 Remembering the Forgotten Conflict: Two Hundred Years of Literature on the War of 1812
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