Empire of Liberty
A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of the USA. 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...
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The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of the USA. 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 theend 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood (born November 27, 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History . He also won a 1970 Bancroft Prize.Gordon Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts and grew up in Worcester and Waltham. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1955 and has since served as a trustee there. After serving in the U.S. Air Force in Japan (during which time he earned an A.M. at Harvard University), he entered the Ph.D. program in history at Harvard, where he studied under Bernard Bailyn. Receiving his Ph.D. in 1964, he taught briefly at Harvard, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969. He was also Pitt Professor at Cambridge University in 1982-83 and has lectured for One Day University. In addition to his books, he has written a number of influential articles.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gordon S. Wood
- 2010, 800 Seiten, Maße: 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0195039149
- ISBN-13: 9780195039146
Sprache:
Englisch
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