Gordon S. Wood

Empire of Liberty

A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Oxford History of the United States
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 64mm
• Gewicht: 1348g
• ISBN-13: 9780195039146
• ISBN-10: 0195039149
• Artikelnr.: 26393202

Autorenporträt

Gordon S. Wood is Alvo O. Way Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution, the Bancroft Prize-winning The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, and The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History. He writes frequently for The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rip Van Winkle's America
1: Experiment in Republicanism
2: The Monarchical Republic
3: The Federalist Program
4: The Emergence of the Jeffersonian Republican Party
5: The French Revolution in America
6: John Adams and the Few and the Many
7: The Crisis of 1798-1799
8: The Jeffersonian Revolution of 1800
9: Republican Society
10: The Jeffersonian West
11: Law and an Independent Judiciary
12: Chief Justice John Marshall and the Origins of Judicial Review
13: Republican Reforms
14: Slavery and Freedom
15: The Rising Glory of America
16: Republican Religion
17: Republican Diplomacy
18: The War of 1812
19: A World within Themselves
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