Death of an Empire - The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City, Robert Booth.
Looks at the decline and fall of the wealthy merchant port of Salem, a
city that became rich through International Trade, in particular
during the long Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, but then like other
American ports suffered from the self inflicted wounds of the War of
1812 and the tariffs that followed, before eventually murder and
scandal finished off the ports decline. Not directly military history,
but a fascinating story, and one that is related to the events of the
Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812
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