| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida. By James G. Cusick. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvi, 370 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2648-2.)

Seeking to redirect historians' understanding of the War of 1812 and the diplomatic, military, and political involvement of the United States during that period, James G. Cusick has written a volume that focuses on the war's beginnings along the southern borderlands. That borderlands conflict, wherein American "Patriots" attacked Spanish holdings in East Florida as part of an attempt to wrest the province from Spanish control, has more often been treated as an appendage to the conflict between the British and the United States. Cusick, however, situates the Patriot war within a broader context involving the major Atlantic world superpowers of the day, perhaps unknowingly following what David Armitage has called a "cis-Atlantic" framework (The British Atlantic World, 2002, p. 23). Cusick also brings a badly needed update to the last book on the subject, Rembert Wallace Patrick's Florida Fiasco: Rampant Rebels on the Georgia-Florida Border, 1810–1815, published in 1954. Finally, Cusick also wrote this volume as a means of showing the "nature of southern warfare" (Cusick, p. 9).

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