num_pages: 406
description: 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 development of a liberal political structure and ideology, and the rise of a bourgeois culture of self-interest and self-control.
language: English
title: The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820
titlecomplete: The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
genres: History, American History
ratings_count: 12
series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press