Description: Haynes here argues that, for all its vaunted claims of distinctiveness and the soaring rhetoric of manifest destiny, the young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial rule.
Review Quotes:
"Unfinished Revolution is an impressive reinterpretation of United States history between 1815 and 1850, built around the theme of American Anglophobia. In a time when the British Empire was the world's superpower, most Americans resented British condescension and feared British aims, even while many of them also hoped to replicate British industrialization, humanitarian reform, and literary accomplishments. Versatile and learned, Sam Haynes is helping U.S. history overcome its parochialism and become more global."
--Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848