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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815

Gordon S. Wood

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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815

Empire of Liberty was named a New York Times Notable Book. The period from 1789 to the end of the War of 1812 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.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9780195039146
Genre
History
Topics
Early American RepublicFounding Fathers and politicsSlavery and nation-building

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