Explore the complexities of America's early years with this compelling history book, beautifully written by a preeminent historian. This edition, published by W W Norton & Company in 2021, offers a fresh perspective on the formation of the United States, challenging the classic narrative of a nation confidently advancing toward greatness. Instead, it reveals a fragile union grappling with divided interests and external threats from European powers and neighboring republics. Breakthrough insights into Native American resistance against the encroachment of settlers highlight the strategic alliances forged to safeguard their lands.

Delve into the powerful narrative of slavery, examining how the internal trade separated families, further complicating the American social fabric. Explore the era’s political fierceness with detailed profiles of key figures such as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whose lives intertwined with the nation’s turbulent events. Experience the passionate debates surrounding slavery and manifest destiny as the United States expanded its territory, often through violence and conflict.

This indispensable account also sheds light on America's industrial revolution and the rise of democracy amid stark divisions. Ideal for history enthusiasts, scholars, or anyone interested in understanding America's complicated legacy. With 544 pages packed with information, it’s a must-have addition to your library.

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781324005797
Year: 2021
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 544


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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. 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. Native peoples sought to defend their homelands from the flood of American settlers through strategic alliances with the other continental powers. The system of American slavery grew increasingly powerful and expansive, its vigorous internal trade in Black Americans separating parents and children, husbands and wives. Bitter party divisions pitted elites favoring strong government against those, like Andrew Jackson, espousing a democratic populism for white men. Violence was both routine and organized: the United States invaded Canada, Florida, Texas, and much of Mexico, and forcibly removed most of the Native peoples living east of the Mississippi. At the end of the period the United States, its conquered territory reaching the Pacific, remained internally divided, with sectional animosities over slavery growing more intense.


Taylor's elegant history of this tumultuous period offers indelible miniatures of key characters from Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Fuller. It captures the high-stakes political drama as Jackson and Adams, Clay, Calhoun, and Webster contend over slavery, the economy, Indian removal, and national expansion. A ground-level account of American industrialization conveys the