The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two It is a work of incredible scope and scholarship. But well worth it.
Every word counts. You know you have a problem when you have a favorite author about Revolutionary and Colonial American history. No such luck. à un prix élevé (l'intro de Spitz est un livre en soi qui vaut le coup).
Then chapter 18 attempts to get back to the chronology with the War of 1812. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) A fellow of the British Academy, he is the multiple prizewinning author of eleven books, including the highly acclaimed America, Empire of Liberty. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States) You may try to justify a high cable bill so you can watch the History Channel. If, like me, your understanding of US history between the Constitutional Convention and the War of 1812 is "something something XYZ affair something" then this will get you caught right up. Half of the book is organized chronologically and the other half by topic. It was hard to put it down, once I started reading it. And that it endures - changed in innumerable ways, of course, but still, in many ways, the same – is reason to celebrate. We can go to Plymouth!!! Wood lays out an excellent argument on how the Founders basically set up the US for a civil war, with the way they wrote the Constitution, namely in how they handled the slavery issue.
You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Took me long enough to get through this 750 page epic. Immensely readable and wide ranging it covers politics, society and religion.
Wood chronicles these changes with illuminating discussions of the intellectual currents of this period, how they affected the events of this period, and how, in turn, the events made plausible or implausible various intellectual currents. You would have to be of a different temperament than my own to be able to read it straight through in a month. Richard Immerman's complex, ironic account of the American empire and its relation to the concept of liberty is an essential analysis of how the United States became the kind of power it is today and where it might now be going. My search for a book that explains the economic reasons for “the second war of independence” conclusively continues.
The first 8 chapters seem to be linear and chronological from the 1787 Constitutional Convention to 1800, but in chapter 9 after reaching Jefferson’s election of 1800, the author hits reverse and goes back to cover specific topics of the 1790s. , que l'on peut trouver en français à un prix prohibitif Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States) From our point in history it all seems so inevitable, but really, none of it was.Give it about 40 pages and you will be transported to those golden days of America that Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the moonbat brigade will almost convince you they were alive in the late-18th century, so wistful are their depictions and accounts of post-Revolution America.Give it about 40 pages and you will be transported to those golden days of America that Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the moonbat brigade will almost convince you they were alive in the late-18th century, so wistful are their depictions and accounts of post-Revolution America.Gordon S. Wood is Professor of History at Brown University. Not just wars and politics, but economics, commerce, religion, education, family life, social changes, slavery, diplomacy, westward expansion, science, philosophy, it’s all in there. Indeed, the latter provides the book's main draw, showing how American visions of liberty transmogrified from mere independence to debates over government power, competing economic visions, western expansion, slavery and treatment of Native Americans that were never fully resolved - and how the Revolution's idealism stratified into a pragmatic, crabbed, morally flawed reality that failed to erase Americans' vision of themselves as God's chosen people.Gordon Wood has been working on this book for over 20 years and it shows. I would have preferred a chapter explaining financial operations during this period, than the chapter that was spent on religion.
Wood argues that Madison wanted the national government to be an umpire that checked the democratic excesses of the state whereas Hamilton wanted to see the United States become a powerful nation equal to Europe. You Save 10%.