America, Empire of Liberty: A New History 

by David Reynolds

  David Reynolds will present a 90 part BBC Radio Four series on American history. It will be a personal 
interpretation, developing a broad argument about the dynamics of American history in three crucial themes: 
Empire, Liberty and Faith. 
America: Empire of Liberty, will be the unique book that emerges from this series, 
and Reynolds’s definitive work on the subject.

The story begins in the 18th century, with an extended struggle among the rival empires of 
France, Britain and Spain for predominance in North America, which Britain eventually wins 
in the ‘first world war’ of 1756-63. 
Coming of age as a military power in its own right in World War Two, the United States establishes 
a global American empire while waging the Cold War and does not dismantle it thereafter. 
From its founding, the colonies and the new nation enjoy greater economic and political liberty than Europe, 
especially through cheap land. But shortage of labour (the flip side of cheap land) 
makes black slavery economically necessary.

Liberty therefore becomes a crucial issue in the history of this nascent nation. 
‘Whose liberty?’ is the big question in the Twentieth Century – causing often violent agitation about 
the rights of blacks. This debate then extends to women, homosexuals, guns, the unborn and multiculturalism. 
The driver behind the American way of life is so often its religious faith, derived from Calvinist Protestantism. 
Reynolds shows how it can be characterised by a providentialist sense of mission, so powerful in its reach 
it becomes the underlying evangelical ideology of America and its foreign policy, from Wilson to George W. Bush.

This persuasive interpretation of the history of the superpower of our times will be 
required reading for years to come.

7/10/2009 == All episodes are in. The collection is now complete.




 
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America, Empire of Liberty (0001) - Lost Civilisations  
America, Empire of Liberty (0002) - Bearer of Death  
America, Empire of Liberty (0003) - Borderlands of the Spanish Superpower 
America, Empire of Liberty (0004) - New France Astride America's Heartland
America, Empire of Liberty (0005) - English Planters 
America, Empire of Liberty (0006) - Faith and Freedom in New England
America, Empire of Liberty (0007) - The Middle Colonies & the Melting Pot 
America, Empire of Liberty (0008) - Awakenings and Nightmares 
America, Empire of Liberty (0009) - The Battle for Empire  
America, Empire of Liberty (0010) - Taxes, Tea and Rights  
America, Empire of Liberty (0011) - Declaring Independence 
America, Empire of Liberty (0012) - Winning Independence
America, Empire of Liberty (0013) -  'To Form a More Perfect Union' 
America, Empire of Liberty (0014) - Making the Republic Work  
America, Empire of Liberty (0015) - Founding a Capital  
America, Empire of Liberty (0016) - War and Terror
America, Empire of Liberty (0017) -  'Remember the Ladies' 
America, Empire of Liberty (0018) - Jefferson's Western Empire
America, Empire of Liberty (0019) - Victims of Liberty  
America, Empire of Liberty (0020) - The Second War of Independence  
America, Empire of Liberty (0021) - For Jackson & Democracy
America, Empire of Liberty (0022) - A Christian Republic
America, Empire of Liberty (0023) - The Indian Trail of Tears 
America, Empire of Liberty (0024) - Frontier Values  
America, Empire of Liberty (0025) - Let Us Conquer Space
America, Empire of Liberty (0026) - The Arsenic of Mexico  
America, Empire of Liberty (0027) - Gold, God and the Little Giant  
America, Empire of Liberty (0028) - Paddies, Papists and Demon Drink
America, Empire of Liberty (0029) - Slaves, Masters and the Slave Power
America, Empire of Liberty (0030) - A House Divided  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0031) - The Ninety-Day War
America, Empire of Liberty - (0032) - The Killers Take Command
America, Empire of Liberty - (0033) - Forever Free
America, Empire of Liberty - (0034) - A New Nation
America, Empire of Liberty - (0035) - War Behind the Lines 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0036) - The Passing of the Dead 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0037) - Dead States, New Birth  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0038) - Reunion but not Reconstruction 28-01-09
America, Empire of Liberty - (0039) - New South, Old Ways  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0040) - War and Memory 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0041) - Big Business
America, Empire of Liberty - (0042) - Made in America
America, Empire of Liberty - (0043) - The Cities - America's Pride and Shame 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0044) - The Farmers and Workers Revolt
America, Empire of Liberty - (0045) - Huddled Masses, Savage Hordes 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0046) Politics and Progress  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0047) - Roosevelt and Reform 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0048) - The Taste of Empire  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0049) - The Wild West  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0050) - Fun and God 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0051) - Too Proud to Fight
America, Empire of Liberty - (0052) - A World Safe for Democracy 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0053) - The Lost Peace 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0054) - 100 Percent American 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0055) - The Jazz Age Hits Main Street 
 America, Empire of Liberty - (0056) - From Boom to Bust  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0057) - New Deal  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0058) - A War for the Survival of Democracy  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0059) - Floundering into War  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0060) - A Hell of A War 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0061) - Red or Dead  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0062) - A World Half-Slave, Half-Free  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0063) - The Suburban Republic 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0064) - Korea - The Cold War Turns Hot 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0065) - Defended to Death  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0066) - The Back of the Bus
America, Empire of Liberty - (0067) - And We Shall Overcome 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0068) - Black Power  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0069) - Women's Liberation 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0070) - War on Poverty  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0071) - Cuba - That Four Letter Word
America, Empire of Liberty - (0072) - Vietnam - The Battleground of Freedom
America, Empire of Liberty - (0073) - 1968 - Paralysis of a President
America, Empire of Liberty - (0074) - Vietnam - Peace With Honour 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0075) - Watergate and the Imperial Presidency
America, Empire of Liberty - (0076) - America in Retreat 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0077) - A Constitutional Abortion
America, Empire of Liberty - (0078) - The Silent Majority Finds Its Voice  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0079) - Putting God Back into Politics 
America, Empire of Liberty - (0080) - Keeping Faith
America, Empire of Liberty - (0081) - The Acting President  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0082) - Reagan and the Evil Empire  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0083) - The Information Revolution  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0084) - Tear Down This Wall
America, Empire of Liberty - (0085) - A New World Order  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0086) - Sole Superpower, Edgy Americans
America, Empire of Liberty - (0087) - Multiculturalism or Disintegration
America, Empire of Liberty - (0088) - America is Under Attack  
America, Empire of Liberty - (0089) - Iraq and the Axis of Evil
America, Empire of Liberty - (0090) - To Shape an Uncertain Destiny 
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