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  title info:
    title: America, empire of liberty
    sub title: a new history of the United States
  name:
    name part: Reynolds, David
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 615 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
  abstract: It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 became the world's greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans? In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of American history, from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama, prize-winning historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith, both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country's expansion. Written with verve and insight, Empire of Liberty brilliantly depicts America in all of its many contradictions.
  table of contents: Natives and Europeans -- Empire and liberties -- Independence and republicanism -- Liberty and security -- East and West -- Slave or free? -- North and South -- White and Black -- Capital and labor -- Reform and expansion -- War and peace -- From boom to bomb -- Red or dead? -- Rights and riots -- The impotence of omnipotence -- Détente and discontent -- Revolution and democracy -- Pride and prejudice -- Hope and fear.
  note: David Reynolds.
  note: Revised and updated.
  note: First published as "America, empire of liberty: a new history" by Allen Lane, 2009.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  classification: E178 .R469 2021
  classification: 973
  identifier: 154167569X
  identifier: 9781541675698
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200915
    record change date: 20220214220004.6
    record identifier: in00004551130