The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
The War of 1812 played a crucial role in creating the structure of 19th-century America"an economy of entrepreneurial capitalism, a society of self-made individualism, a bourgeois culture of self-control, and politics of liberalism." The dramatic transformation was the work of middle- and upper-class elites, with the war serving to advance their views. This major new interpretation of the early national period and the development of modern, industrial America is richly detailed and enlivened by two dozen short biographies. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries. Roy H. Tryon, Delaware State Archives, DoverCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.