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Beschreibung
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this volume, 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. 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.
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this volume, 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. 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.
Über den Autor
Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Editor's Introduction

  • Introduction: Rip Van Winkle's America

  • 1. Experiment in Republicanism

  • 2. A 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. Between 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

  • Bibliographic Essay

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199832460
ISBN-10: 0199832463
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wood, Gordon S.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 43 mm
Von/Mit: Gordon S. Wood
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2011
Gewicht: 1,194 kg
Artikel-ID: 106894849