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Book Review


Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. By Donald R. Hickey. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxx, 430 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978–0-252–03179–3.)
Donald R. Hickey, probably the preeminent American scholar on the War of 1812, has undertaken the task of clearing away many of the myths and misunderstandings generated over several generations of scholarship on this conflict. After a brief prologue, his strategy was to formulate hundreds of questions their answers over such topics as the war's causation; battles and campaigns; maritime warfare; participation of soldiers, sailors, and civilians; as well as the mechanics of waging the war. He also included a final summation, a twenty-one-page chronology, and four appendixes, the most interesting of which regards the name of the war. . . .
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