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Empire of liberty : a history of the early Republic, 1789-1815
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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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the
American Revolution.-- New York Times Book Review
\"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book
has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for
many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the
appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one.-- William and
Mary Quarterly
\"[A] brilliant and sweeping interpretation of political culture in
the Revolutionary generation.-- New England Quarterly
\"This is an admirable, thoughtful, and penetrating study of one of
the most important chapters in American history.--Wesley Frank
Craven
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The American Revolution : writings from the pamphlet debate. II, 1773-1776
\"For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, the leading historian of the era presents a landmark two-volume edition of the thirty-nine pamphlets charting the course of the political crisis that led to independence. This second volume includes twenty works from the crucial years when the debate turned from issues of representation and consent to the fateful question of where sovereignty would ultimately reside in the British Empire\"--Back cover.
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Empire of Liberty
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 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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The American Revolution : writings from the pamphlet debate. I, 1764-1772
\"From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thrity-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. Here, in the first volume of a two-volume set, are nineteen works from the trans-Atlantic debate triggered by Parliament's imposition of new taxes and regulations designed to reform the empire. What begins as a controversy about the origin and function of colonies ... quickly becomes a deeper dispute about the nature of political liberty itself\"--Jacket flap.
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The Problem of Sovereignty
In the essay featured here, Eric Nelson argues that in the early 1770s patriots dropped their previous insistence that Parliament was sovereign over the colonies but simply lacked authority to impose internal taxes, and instead adopted the dominion theory, returning to the constitutional position of the Stuart monarchs James I and Charles I. Examining this remarkable turn toward royal power demonstrates the true drama of the republican turn in 1776 and highlights the persistent allure of prerogative powers in the formative period of American constitutionalism. Gordon S. Wood, Pauline Maier, and Daniel J. Hulsebosch assess Nelson’s thesis, and then Nelson replies to their critiques.
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John Adams : revolutionary writings 1755-1775
\"... includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus (Adams) and Massachusettensis (loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters\"--Jacket.
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Reassessing Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution on the Occasion of its Jubilee
This essay places Bernard Bailyn's
in its historiographical context, addresses its implications for the Constitutional settlement, and places it within current scholarly debates on the Revolution. In the last, it argues, the
offers a contrasting vision of history and the historian to the recent focus on issues of race, class, and gender and demand that history meet contemporary needs.
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