The Republic Reborn - War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (Paperback)

Winner of the Book Prize for New Authors from the National Historical Society 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 devlopment of a liberal political structure and ideology, and the rise of a bourgeois culture of self-interest and self-control. "Serving as a vehicle for change and offering an outlet for the anxieties of a changing socity," Watts writes, the War of 1812 "ultimately intensified and sanctioned the imperatives of a developing world-view."

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
Release date:	September 1989
First published:	1987
Authors:	Steven Watts
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	406
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-3941-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies
LSN:	0-8018-3941-6
Barcode:	9780801839412

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