In the following so called ‘Second War of Independence,’ the U.S. The traditional American narrative of the War of 1812 emphasizes that British maritime practices-mainly interferences with American neutral trade and the impressment of seamen from American merchant ships on the high seas-caused severe Anglo-American tensions in the early nineteenth century such that Republicans-in power in the United States since 1801-felt the need to declare war against the former mother country in 1812 in order to defend the nation’s honor. Trautsch Amerikastudien / American Studies 59.4 (2014) PAUL GILJE, Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights in the War of 1812 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013), 437 pp. ![]() ![]() ANDREW LAMBERT, The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 (London: Faber and Faber, 2012), 538 pp. ![]() American Studies Reviews, Volume 59.4 (2014) NICOLE EUSTACE, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2012), xvii + 315 pp.
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