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“The wars in Europe engulfed much of the world, precipitating and facilitating innumerable local conflicts in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including the Haitian…

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“the now-famous Cunards, who established their shipping business during the war and made their first transatlantic passenger voyage in 1813.”

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“Generally Americans held that citizenship was a choice and thus allowed naturalization, while Britain held that an individual’s subjection to the sovereign of the…

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“The American and British governments invested heavily in the press, supporting official and unofficial organs, and high-ranking members routinely wrote articles and employed mercenary…

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“the British government was thinking beyond the immediate war to a future in which a defeated United States could be hemmed in by an Anglo-Spanish–American Indian alliance.”

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“American notaries, port authorities, local governments, customs officials, American diplomats in Britain, and British agents issued certificates, which varied wildly in reliability.”

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“After all, the two issues on which the United States formally declared war—America’s trade rights as a neutral in the ongoing European wars and…

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“In March 1812 the British Caribbean press described how the British squadron based at Jamaica had earlier captured a “Haytian frigate.” In response, the…

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“After all, the two issues on which the United States formally declared war—America’s trade rights as a neutral in the ongoing European wars and…

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“The concept of citizenship was still novel in 1812, with the vast majority of people who were living in North America and Europe placing…

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“The United States was undeniably imperialist in 1812. Within two generations it had doubled its size, dispossessing the native inhabitants of their land and…

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“In Britain, the advertising business was so complex that the Scotch, English, and Irish Newspapers, and Advertising Office in Edinburgh offered clients access to…

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“The British government in 1807 had issued the “Orders in Council,” which enforced a naval blockade against France, and with a shortage of seamen to man the Royal Navy, Britain also felt justified in stopping and sometimes firing on ships flying the American flag in the name of apprehending escaped British sailors. The other main cause of war was distress…

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“There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe’s work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear: stray too far from the innocuous, and the axe would fall. Call it selective censorship: freedom of expression was guaranteed unless it was expressed in a work of art. The most amazing aspect of this American morality play…

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