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

Gordon S. Wood

How did Americans, especially in the North, become more equal, enterprising and self confident in the first generation after the Constitution?

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Author
Gordon S. Wood

Why read it

  • You will see how a few decades can change a society's habits and its sense of who it is
  • You will learn how rival visions, one turned to Europe and one to the West, pulled the early republic in different directions
  • You will recognise the feeling of waking up in a society that has changed under your feet

Who it is for

  • Citizens who want to know how American politics took shape
  • History lovers who finished the Revolution and ask what came next
  • Anyone surprised by how fierce early party fights were

Contents

  1. Editor’s Introduction
  2. Abbreviations Used in Citations
  3. Introduction: Rip Van Winkle’s America
  4. 1 Experiment in Republicanism
  5. 2 A Monarchical Republic
  6. 3 The Federalist Program
  7. 4 The Emergence of the Jeffersonian Republican Party
  8. 5 The French Revolution in America
  9. 6 John Adams and the Few and the Many
  10. 7 The Crisis of 1798–1799
  11. 8 The Jeffersonian Revolution of 1800
  12. 9 Republican Society
  13. 10 The Jeffersonian West
  14. 11 Law and an Independent Judiciary
  15. 12 Chief Justice John Marshall and the Origins of Judicial Review
  16. 13 Republican Reforms
  17. 14 Between Slavery and Freedom
  18. 15 The Rising Glory of America
  19. 16 Republican Religion
  20. 17 Republican Diplomacy
  21. 18 The War of 1812
  22. 19 A World Within Themselves
  23. Bibliographic Essay

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