American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 Taylor Alan
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 Taylor Alan In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional…
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 Taylor Alan
In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. Native peoples sought to defend their homelands from the flood of American settlers through strategic alliances with the other continental powers. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European empires and other independent republics on the North American continent.
Bitter party divisions pitted elites favoring strong government against those, like Andrew Jackson, espousing a democratic populism for white men. The system of American slavery grew increasingly powerful and expansive, its vigorous internal trade in Black Americans separating parents and children, husbands and wives. Violence was both routine and
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