Jefferson's America, 1760-1815

by Risjord, Norman K

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Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Madison House Publishers, 1991. Some underlining, highlighting, margin writing, but overall a nice, tight copy. Independence created as many difficulties as it solved. Still to be deter-mined was the viability of the fragile union among the thirteen states, the stability and integrity of the republic they created, as well as the site and character of the popular b ase on which it rested. In resolving these issues Americans had a number of advantages from the beginning. They possessed, for instance, a common language, literature, and law. With the exception of' the African American minority there was substantial et hnic homogeneity. Americans, as a result, seemed more concerned with their mutual interests than with their differences. As their political institutions matured they searched self-consciously for symbols of national identity, and they found them everywhe re-in Noah Webster's "blue-backed speller, " in the Bunker Hill monument, in the Fourth of July, in the Roman forums that graced Washington, D. C. . ISBN: 0945612257 . Soft Cover. Good. UNITED STATES HISTORY FRENCH INDIAN.