The War of 1812 produced military heroes such as James Lawrence, David Porter, Stephen Decatur, and Andrew Jackson and thus promoted American nationalism, such that the initially divisive war ushered in the so-called Era of Good Feelings, the classical American interpretation concludes. Navy was able to win some impressive naval battles against the hitherto undefeated Royal Navy, the traditional story continues, and thus made Great Britain acknowledge American sovereignty in the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. 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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