At the turn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is at the
height of its ascendancy; Napoleonic France is struggling to maintain
its position as a world power; and the incumbent American empire is
quickly expanding its territory, while the Native peoples struggle to
establish their own confederacy, their own independent nation.
Bestselling author, historian, political scientist, and scholar James
Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of this decisive war -- which
historians have long treated as a second American revolution -- by
bringing to life the Native struggle for nationhood and sovereignty; the
battle between the British Empire and the United States over Upper and
Lower Canada; and finally, at the heart of it, the unlikely friendship
and political alliance of two towering figures of history: Tecumseh, the
Shawnee chieftain and charismatic leader of the Native confederacy, and
Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, protector and defender of the British
Empire.
Highly engaging and impeccably researched, Tecumseh and Brock is a
powerful work of history, an epic story of empires and emerging nations,
of politics and power, and of two leaders whose legacy still lives on
today.