| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 515 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Constitutions -- Empires -- Wars -- Race -- Democracy -- Monsters -- Revolutions -- Soil -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European empires and other independent republics on the North American continent. Native peoples sought to defend their homelands from the flood of American settlers through strategic alliances with the other continental powers. The system of American slavery grew increasingly powerful and expansive, its vigorous internal trade in Black Americans separating parents and children, husbands and wives. Bitter party divisions pitted elites favoring strong government against those, like Andrew Jackson, espousing a democratic populism for white men. Violence was both routine and organized: the United States invaded Canada, Florida, Texas, and much of Mexico, and forcibly removed most of the Native peoples living east of the Mississippi. At the end of the period the United States, its conquered territory reaching the Pacific, remained internally divided, with sectional animosities over slavery growing more intense... Absorbing and chilling, American Republics illuminates the continuities between our own social and political divisions and the events of this formative period"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject(S) |
United States -- History -- 1783-1865.
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
9781324005797 (hardcover) |
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1324005793 (hardcover) |
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