Examines Carnegie’s book Triumphant Democracy and his efforts to promote closer ties between America and Britain. Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) has long been known as a leading American industrialist, a man of great wealth and great philanthropy. What is not as well known is that he was actively involved in Anglo-American politics and tried to promote a closer relationship between his native Britain and the United States. To that end, Carnegie published Triumphant Democracy in 1886, in which he proposed the American federal republic as a model for solving Britain’s unsettling problems. On the basis of his own experience, Carnegie argued that America was a much-improved Britain and that the British monarchy could best overcome its social and political turbulence by following the democratic American model. He expressed a growing belief that the antagonism between the two nations should be supplanted by rapprochement. A. S. Eisenstadt offers an in-depth analysis of Triumphant Democracy, illustrating its importance and illuminating the larger current of British-American politics between the American Revolution and World War I and the fascinating exchange about the virtues and defects of the two nations.

Carnegie's Model Republic: Triumphant Democracy and the British-American Relationship

History

Eisenstadt, A. S.

Americas

State Univ of New York Pr

Examines Carnegie’s book Triumphant Democracy and his efforts to promote closer ties between America and Britain.

Carnegie's Model Republic: Triumphant Democracy and the British-american Relationship

State University of New York Press

Such is the continuing volume of work on the Civil War that we are regularly in need of an authoritative and accessible brief synthesis to keep us up to date with this endlessly fascinating subject. Brooks Simpson meets that need for the 1990s in America's Civil War, a wonderful feat of compression in which he addresses all the great issues of the war in 200 pages of clear and readable prose. Rightly, he puts the military history of the conflict at the center of the picture, but he excels in relating the drama of the war itself to the politics of both Union and Confederacy, to the stresses and strains-and opportunities-of the home front, and to the great issues of emancipation and reconstruction. This book is a fine achievement, and it will be invaluable not only to students but to many other readers-and even Civil War specialists will benefit from its fresh insights.–Peter J. Parish, Cambridge University

America's Civil War (AMERICAN HISTORY SERIES)

Simpson, Brooks D.

Franklin,John Hope

Harlan Davidson

The American History Series: African Americans in the Early Republic - 1789-1831.

African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831 (American History)

Wright, Donald R.

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Carnegie's Model Republic: Triumphant Democracy and the British-American Relationship

Carnegie's Model Republic: Triumphant Democracy and the British-american Relationship

America's Civil War (AMERICAN HISTORY SERIES)

African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831 (American History)