Thomas N. Ingersoll

A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty (eBook, ePUB)

The Rage for Equality in the Election of 1800-1801
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Produktbeschreibung

The final work by late historian Thomas N. Ingersoll on the political crisis posed by the presidential election of 1800the reverberations of which are still felt today.

Written by the late Thomas Ingersoll before his death in December 2021, this book examines the fourteen-month struggle to control the identity and future of the United States following George Washington's death in December 1799. In this period, Americans engaged in a fierce debate over every aspect of political life, but especially over the meaning of egalitarianism and equality in the nascent nation.

Ingersoll's work focuses in particular on the divisions between two emergent national political parties: the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans. Both were democratic, strictly speaking, but they were still nervous about what democracy actually meant. Each party was also deeply divided along a spectrum from most moderate to most extreme. After a fraught election campaign shaped by disagreements over fundamental issues of class, gender, race, and religion, the populist Democratic-Republicans sent the moderately progressive Thomas Jefferson to the White House and won control of the House of Representatives.

This victory ended twelve long years of Federalist domination and began one of the greatest political dramas in American history. Rather than accepting their electoral defeat, the Federalists sought to subvert the will of the people and sow chaos and anarchy in the courts and in Congress, nearly tearing the country apart in the process. The Revolution of 1800 did nothing to stem the tide of a growing sectionalism that threatened to unmoor the nation but rather moved the country one step closer to all-out civil war.

A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty is a magisterial history of this pivotal period in American history, written by a senior historian in full command of the material.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kansas
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780700640379
• Artikelnr.: 76027227

Autorenporträt

Thomas N. Ingersoll was professor of history at The Ohio State University, Lima Campus. He died in 2021 at the age of 73. He was the author of several works, including Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 17181819 and The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England.