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A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Oxford University Press
October 2011
On Sale: October 1, 2011
800 pages
ISBN: 0199832463
EAN: 9780199832460
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The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most
respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series
includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times
bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes.
Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's
most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant
account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789
and the beginning of the national government to the end of
the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change
in all aspects of American life--in politics, society,
economy, and culture. The men who founded the new government
had high hopes for the future, but few of their hopes and
dreams worked out quite as they expected. They hated
political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. Some
wanted the United States to become a great fiscal-military
state like those of Britain and France; others wanted the
country to remain a rural agricultural state very different
from the European states. Instead, by 1815 the United States
became something neither group anticipated. Many leaders
expected American culture to flourish and surpass that of
Europe; instead it became popularized and vulgarized. The
leaders also hope to see the end of slavery; instead,
despite the release of many slaves and the end of slavery in
the North, slavery was stronger in 1815 than it had been in
1789. Many wanted to avoid entanglements with Europe, but
instead the country became involved in Europe's wars and
ended up waging another war with the former mother country.
Still, with a new generation emerging by 1815, most
Americans were confident and optimistic about the future of
their country. Integrating all aspects of life, from politics and law to
the economy and culture, Empire of Liberty offers a
marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its
first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation.
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