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Article: Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2008
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Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. By Donald R. Hickey. (Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. xxix, 430. $34.95.)
The author of this book has devoted decades to the study of the War of 1812. In recent years it may be "A Forgotten Conflict," as he called it in the subtitle of his 1989 book on the war, but it was neither forgotten nor neglected by historians during the nineteenth century, when it was deemed "the second American War for Independence" and textbooks devoted as many pages to it as to the Mexican War. This priority was reversed as Anglophobia receded to be replaced by a "special" Anglo-American relationship that came to ...