British America, American America: The Settling and Making of the United States

by Thomas Bender

Book Overview

A bold new vision of how the United States shed its colonial identity and became a distinctive nation

The transformation of British America, a cluster of colonies along the Atlantic, into American America, a nation-state, was not the sudden event of legend. The process extended well beyond the American Revolution--even beyond the War of 1812 the Second American Revolution." Indeed, the making of the American nation was only realized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809067099
• ISBN13: 9780809067091
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 304 Pages