Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic

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By John M. Murrin

Published May 23, 2018

Rethinking America (Oxford University Press) brings together many of John Murrin’s noteworthy essays on the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the early republic. His essays rethink American identity and the impact that declaring independence had on the new nation it produced.

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