6295X1 Third Printing. University of California Press, Berkeley: 1968. 457 pages. Softcover. Reading copy. The first full-scale study of the coming of the War of 1812 since the work of Henry Adams. Mr. Perkins contends that diplomatic disasters cannot always be explained in rational terms and that emotional factors more often than not dictate the course of history. He shows how the hotheads of the two countries made folly beget folly, until a war that neither side wanted became a reality. Includes an Index. $41.50USD
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