How Long to Read American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

How Long Does it Take to Read American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 12 minutes to read American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 by Alan Taylor

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American History A Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the Year From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. 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 everyday lives of factory workers and immigrant families. And the immersive narrative puts us on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Mexico City, Quebec, and the Cherokee capital, New Echota. Absorbing and chilling, American Republics illuminates the continuities between our own social and political divisions and the events of this formative period.

How long is American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850?

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 by Alan Taylor is 544 pages long, and a total of 138,176 words.

This makes it 184% the length of the average book. It also has 169% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 35 minutes to read American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 aloud.

What Reading Level is American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850?

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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