Henry Adams: History of the United States Vol. 2 1809-1817 (LOA #32): The Administrations of James Madison

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Library of America, 4 Tem 1986 - 1436 sayfa
This monumental work, the second of two Library of America volumes, culminated Henry Adams’s lifelong fascination with the American past. Writing at the height of his powers, Adams understood the true subject as the consolidation of the American nation and character, and his treatment has never been surpassed.

Covering the eight years spanning the presidency of James Madison, this volume chronicles “Mr. Madison’s War”—the most bungled war in American history. The President and Congress delay while the United States is bullied and insulted by both England and France; then they plunge the country into the War of 1812 without providing the troops, monies, or fleets to wage it. The incompetence of the commanders leads to a series of disasters—including the burning of the White House and Capitol while Madison and his cabinet, fleeing from an invading army, watch from the nearby hills of Maryland and Virginia.

The war has its heroes, too: William Henry Harrison at Tippecanoe and Andrew Jackson at New Orleans, Commodores Perry and Decatur and the officers and crew of the Constitution. As Adams tells it, though, disgrace, is averted by other means: the ineptitude of the British, the skill of the American artillerymen and privateers, and the diplomatic brilliance of Albert Gallatin and John Quincy Adams, who negotiated the peace treaty at Ghent. The history, full of reversals and paradoxes, ends with the largest irony of all: the United States, the apparent loser of the war, emerges as a great new world power destined to eclipse its European rivals.

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VOLUME
7
ALIENATION FROM FRANCE
21
CANNINGS CONCESSIONS
35
7
49
ERSKINES ARRANGEMENT
61
FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON
70
NAPOLEONS TRIUMPH
97
EXECUTIVE WEAKNESS
111
DEARBORNS CAMPAIGN
718
EAST END OF LAKE ONTARIO
734
WILKINSONS CAMPAIGN
740
RIVER ST LAWRENCE FROM WILLIAMSBURG TO MONTREAL
742
MOBILE AND FORT MIMS
764
SEAT OF WAR AMONG THE CREEKS
772
CAMPAIGNS AMONG THE CREEKS
782
THE BLOCKADE
802

LEGISLATIVE IMPOTENCE
127
INCAPACITY OF GOVERNMENT
143
THE DECREE OF RAMBOUILLET
167
CADORES LETTER OF AUGUST 5
224
VOLUME TWO I PINKNEYS INAMICABLE LEAVE
297
THE LITTLE BELT
313
MADISON TRIUMPHANT
327
HARRISON AND TECUMTHE
342
TIPPECANOE
359
MEETING OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS
374
WAR DEbates
387
WAR LEGISLATION
401
MADISON AS MINERVA
417
HESITATIONS
432
WAR
446
JOEL BARLOW
463
REPEAL OF THE ORDERS IN COUNCIL
478
INVASION OF CANADA
492
SEAT OF WAR ABOUT LAKE ERIE
498
HULLS SURRENDER
511
DETROIT RIVER
512
THE NIAGARA CAMPAIGN
528
STRAITS OF NIAGARA FROM LAKE ERIE
530
NAVAL BATTLES
550
DISCORD
566
EXECUTIVE EMBARRASSMENTS
582
WAR LEGISLATION
598
The Second Administration of James Madison
615
Contents VOLUME ONE I ENGLAND ANGRY
621
RUSSIAN MEDIATION
638
THE EXTRA SESSION OF 1813
655
THE RIVER RAISIN
669
PROCTOR AND PERRY
688
THE BATTLE OF THE THAMES
707
ATTACK ON CRANEY ISLAND
809
CHESAPEAKE AND ARGUS
818
PRIVATEERING
834
RUSSIA AND ENGLAND
854
THE LAST EMBARGO
871
MONROE AND ARMSTRONG
889
VOLUME TWO I MASSACHUSETTS DECIDES
907
CHIPPAWA AND LUNDYS LANE
923
BATTLE OF CHIPPAWA
934
BATTLE OF LUNDYS LANE AT SUNSET
942
BATTLE OF LUNDYS LANE AT TEN OCLOCK
948
FORT ERIE
952
ATTACK AND Defence of FoRT ERIE
955
PLATTSBURG
972
NAVAL BATTLE AT PLATTSBURG
983
BLADENSBURG
993
CAMPAIGN OF WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE
994
BATTLE OF BLADENSBURG
1008
ATTACK AND Defence of BALTIMORE
1029
SEAT OF WAR IN LOUISIANA AND WEST FLORIDA II24
1124
ATTACK ON FORT BOWYER
1135
LANDING OF BRITISH ARMY AT NEW ORLEANS
1144
ATTACK MADE BY MAJOR GENERAL JACKSON DEC 23 1814
1152
BRITISH AND AMERICAN POSITIONS AT NEW ORLEANS
1162
ATTACK AND Defence of tHE AMERICAN LINES
1171
CAPTURE OF FORT BOWYER
1182
Index
1347
CONTRACT WITH FRANCE
1368
DISMISSAL OF ROBERT SMITH
1384
NAPOLEONS DELAYS
1391
Chronology
1419
Note on the Texts
1426
Notes
1434
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Born in 1838 into one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Boston, a family which had produced two American presidents, Henry Adams had the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life. Functioning both in the world of practical men and afffairs (as a journalist and an assistant to his father, who was an American diplomat in Washinton and London), and in the world of ideas (as a prolific writer, the editor of the prestigious North American Review, and a professor of medieval, european, and American history at Harvard), Adams was one of the few men of his era who attempted to understand art, thought, culture, and history as one complex force field of interacting energies. His two masterworks in this dazzling effort are Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and The Education of Henry Adams, published one after the other in 1904 and 1907. Taken together they may be read as Adams' spiritual autobiography—two monumental volumes in which he attempts to bring together into a vast synthesis all of his knowledge of politics, economics, psychology, science, philosophy, art, and literature in order to attempt to understand the individual's place in history and society. They constitute one of the greatest historical and philosophical meditations on the human condition in all of literature.

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