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The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820

The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820

Paperback

Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Military HistoryWar of 1812

ISBN10: 0801839416
ISBN13: 9780801839412
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 1989
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Winner of the Book Prize for New Authors from the National Historical Society

The War of 1812 played a critical role in the emergence of an American culture of capitalism. In The Republic Reborn Steven Watts offers a brilliant new interpretation of the war and the foundation of liberal America. He explores the sweeping changes that took place in America between 1790 and 1820--the growth of an entrepreneurial economy of competition, the devlopment of a liberal political structure and ideology, and the rise of a bourgeois culture of self-interest and self-control. Serving as a vehicle for change and offering an outlet for the anxieties of a changing socity, Watts writes, the War of 1812 ultimately intensified and sanctioned the imperatives of a developing world-view.

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19th Century United States History