The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987 - 378 pages 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 completion, the development of a liberal political structure and ideology, and the rise of a bourgeois culture of self-interest and self-control. |
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The Birth of the Liberal Republic 17901820 | 1 |
The Family of the Earth | 16 |
II | 63 |
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The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 Steven Watts Limited preview - 1989 |
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