ISBN10: 0195039149, ISBN13: 9780195039146, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government tothe end of the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life--in politics, society, economy, and culture. The men who founded the newgovernment had high hopes for the future, but few of their hopes and dreams worked out quite as they expected. They hated political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. Some wanted the United States to become a great fiscal-military state like those of Britain and France; others wanted the country to remain a rural agricultural state very different from the European states. Instead, by 1815 the United States became something neither group anticipated. Many leaders expected American cultureto flourish and surpass that of Europe; instead it became popularized and vulgarized. The leaders also hope to see the end of slavery; instead, despite the release of many slaves and the end ofslavery in the North, ...
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ISBN10: 0195039149, ISBN13: 9780195039146, [publisher: OUP USA 2010-01-07, Oxford] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]

2009 Oxford hardcover 1st edtiion 1st printing with full number line. Foxing, light sunning on cover, else text clean, binding tight . Oversize book – extra shipping charges will apply, especially for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope. Date: 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195039149 9780195039146 [US]