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American Republics - A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 (Paperback)
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American Republics - A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R497
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In this beautifully written history of America's formative period,
an eminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation
marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted
United States actually emerged as an internally fragile union of
states that clashed over a tenuous balance of regional power.
European empires and the new republic of Mexico sought to contain
that union by allying with Native peoples who defended their
homelands. Bitter political divisions pitted those favouring strong
government with elite rule against those, like Andrew Jackson,
espousing a democratic populism for white men. With a flood of
settlers pouring into the west, the United States invaded Canada,
Florida, Texas and much of Mexico. It forcibly removed most of the
Native peoples living east of the Mississippi. And after the
Mexican war, with conquered territory reaching west to the Pacific,
the sectional divisions over slavery produced a crisis.
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