Making Maine
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19th Century Britain
19th-century New England politics
A Mongrel Breed of Soldier
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Academic study of Maine history
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American dissent during conflict
American frontier conflicts
American maritime history
American politics
American regionalism
American Revolution aftermath
An Exceedingly Dirty and Nasty People
antiwar movements in early America
Apres la Guerre
Author_Joshua M Smith
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Bangor
Battle of Hampden
Boston
Boston and regional tensions
British occupation of U.S. territory
British-American relations post-Revolution
Canadian-American borderlands history
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Category=HBW
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Category=NHK
Category=NHW
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civilian suffering in wartime
coastal New England history
conflict in the District of Maine
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Cyrus King
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Donald Graves
Donald Hickey
early American identity crises
early American political conflicts
early U.S. internal conflict
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federalism versus states' rights
Federalists
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founding-era foreign policy
Governor Caleb Strong
Halifax
Hampden Races
Henry Adams
Historical analysis of New England
historical roots of American federalism
How Maine became a state
James Leamon
James M. Banner
James Madison
Jeffersonians
John Adams
John Lowell
Jr.
Language_English
local responses to federal authority
Maine history
Maine statehood
Maine's path to statehood
Maine's statehood movement
Massachusetts
Massachusetts historical conflict
Massachusetts political divisions
national loyalites
New England before statehood
New England during War of 1812
New England separatist sentiment
New England war history
Nineteenth-century America
Northeast regional identity
Northern opposition to war
Nova Scotia
One against another
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Penobscot River
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regional and national identities in North America
Revolution
Revolutionary War aftermath
Ronald Banks
Samuel Eliot Morison
smuggling in early America
softlaunch
state formation and national identity
State orgins
successful statehood movement
taxation in 19th century America
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Thomas Jefferson
War
War of 1812 homefront
war's inherent misery
wartime civilian hardship
Wicked War
William King
Yankee
Yankee confusion
Product details
- ISBN 9781625347022
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 151 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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After the Revolutionary War ended, the new American nation grappled with a question about its identity: Were the states sovereign entities or subordinates to a powerful federal government? The War of 1812 brought this vexing issue into sharp relief, as a national government intent on waging an unpopular war confronted a populace in Massachusetts that was vigorously opposed to it. Maine, which at the time was part of Massachusetts, served as the battleground in this political struggle.
Joshua M. Smith recounts an innovative history of the war, focusing on how it specifically affected what was then called the District of Maine. Drawing on archival materials from the United States, Britain, and Canada, Smith exposes the bitter experience of Maine's citizens during that conflict as they endured multiple hardships, including starvation, heavy taxes, smuggling, treason, and enemy occupation. War's inherent miseries, along with a changing relationship between regional and national identities, gave rise to a statehood movement that rejected a Boston-centric worldview in favor of a broadly American identity.
