Jefferson's America, 1760-1815
A narrative of America's revolutionary generation, taking the reader from the earliest rumblings of colonial dissent, through the crises of revolution and nation-making, to the heroic drama of the war of 1812. The author combines biography and social history with military and political history.
Print Book, English, ©2002
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2002
History
xvi, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780742521728, 9780742521735, 0742521729, 0742521737
49522382
Prelude : the American landscape in 1760
The Atlantic trading community
The Atlantic cultural community
The imperial challenge, 1763-1770
The road to revolution, 1770-1774
Struggle for independence, 1775-1778
A nation born
The revolution at home
A time of trial
From many, one
The new nation
Launching the ship of state, 1789-1794
Fall of the Federalists, 1794-1800
The search for national identity
Jeffersonian liberalism
Jeffersonian nationalism
The road to war, 1805-1812
"Mr. Madison's war."