Format:
XX, 1095 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
006016574X
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0060922826
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1001-1071) and index
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A Special Relationship -- Battle of New Orleans, 8 January 1815 -- Origins and character of General Jackson -- How the War of 1812 started -- Divisions within America -- The war on the Canadian frontier -- Robert Fulton and early high-technology naval warfare -- Captain Pasley, world strategy and rocket attacks -- British naval weaknesses and strengths -- The burning of Washington and mutual atrocities -- Jackson in the South -- The crushing of the Indians -- Peace negotiations: John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay -- Significance of the Treaty of Ghent -- Beginnings of the Anglo-American "special relationship" -- Castlereagh's statesmanship; the first disarmament treaty -- The American seizure of Florida -- Russia and the Oregon Territory -- How Britons and Americans saw each other -- Pro-Americanism among British progressives -- Sydney Smith, Cobbett and Mrs. Trollope on America -- The development of American English -- Washington Irving and the "cultural cringe" -- The United States: a future world power -- The Congress Dances -- Wellington in Vienna in 1815: his career and character -- The fearful legacy of Bonaparte -- Goya and the shift in European opinion -- Revolt of the German intelligentsia -- Metternich and the anti-French coalition -- Bonaparte's exile and return -- Before, during and after the Battle of Waterloo -- Castlereagh, Metternich, Talleyrand and the Congress -- The "loose cannon" at Vienna, Tsar Alexander I -- The Russians in London -- Protocol and expertise at Vienna -- The losers: Saxony, Poland and Italy.
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A Special Relationship -- Battle of New Orleans, 8 January 1815 -- Origins and character of General Jackson -- How the War of 1812 started -- Divisions within America -- The war on the Canadian frontier -- Robert Fulton and early high-technology naval warfare -- Captain Pasley, world strategy and rocket attacks -- British naval weaknesses and strengths -- The burning of Washington and mutual atrocities -- Jackson in the South -- The crushing of the Indians -- Peace negotiations: John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay -- Significance of the Treaty of Ghent -- Beginnings of the Anglo-American "special relationship" -- Castlereagh's statesmanship; the first disarmament treaty -- The American seizure of Florida -- Russia and the Oregon Territory -- How Britons and Americans saw each other -- Pro-Americanism among British progressives -- Sydney Smith, Cobbett and Mrs. Trollope on America -- The development of American English -- Washington Irving and the "cultural cringe" -- The United States: a future world power -- The Congress Dances -- Wellington in Vienna in 1815: his career and character -- The fearful legacy of Bonaparte -- Goya and the shift in European opinion -- Revolt of the German intelligentsia -- Metternich and the anti-French coalition -- Bonaparte's exile and return -- Before, during and after the Battle of Waterloo -- Castlereagh, Metternich, Talleyrand and the Congress -- The "loose cannon" at Vienna, Tsar Alexander I -- The Russians in London -- Protocol and expertise at Vienna -- The losers: Saxony, Poland and Italy.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Weltgeschichte 1815-1830
Author information:
Johnson, Paul 1928-2023
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