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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States)

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The Oxford History of the USA 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 latest volume in the series, one of The united states’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 used to be 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 somewhat as they expected. They hated political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. Some wanted the USA to change into 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. As a substitute, by 1815 the USA became something neither group anticipated. Many leaders expected American culture to flourish and surpass that of Europe; As a substitute it became popularized and vulgarized. The leaders also hope to see the end of slavery; As a substitute, despite the release of many slaves and the end of slavery in the North, slavery used to be stronger in 1815 than it had been in 1789. Many wanted to keep away from entanglements with Europe, but As a substitute 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 way forward for their country.
Named a New York Times Notable Book, Empire of Liberty offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when The united states took its first unsteady steps as a new and hastily expanding nation.

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