{"product_id":"the-republic-reborn-steven-watts-9780801839412","title":"The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Book Prize for New Authors from the National Historical Society \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe War of 1812 played a critical role in the emergence of an American \"culture of capitalism.\" In The Republic Reborn Steven Watts offers a brilliant new interpretation of the war and the foundation of liberal America. He explores the sweeping changes that took place in America between 1790 and 1820--the growth of an entrepreneurial economy of competition, the devlopment of a liberal political structure and ideology, and the rise of a bourgeois culture of self-interest and self-control. \"Serving as a vehicle for change \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e offering an outlet for the anxieties of a changing socity,\" Watts writes, the War of 1812 \"ultimately intensified and sanctioned the imperatives of a developing world-view.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Watts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801839416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801839412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 5.92w x 1.12d","brand":"Steven Watts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438013788415,"sku":"9780801839412","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_69b757ad-779b-41da-aab9-6c7f69cdb971.jpg?v=1777168212","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-republic-reborn-steven-watts-9780801839412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}