Acceptable, but perhaps overly top down view, which I complain of only because there are others which accomplish the same. Otherwise a fine and sturdy accounting.
Bickham did some impressive work in attempting to tell the story of the War of 1812 from the American, British, and Canadian perspectives, and this work is interesting in that it looks at the political, economic, and public opinion aspects of the war. Bickham places the conflict in a global context...