| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Canada and the United States

Karl-Friedrich Walling. Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Govenment. (American Political Thought.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1999. Pp. xii, 356. $40.00.

This book stands at the convergence of two major enterprises of rediscovery. Recently, historians and political scientists fascinated by the problems of governing polities covering vast territories have begun to reexamine concepts of empire and imperial governance. At the same time, scholars and the public have begun to reacquaint themselves with Alexander Hamilton, as his great adversary Thomas Jefferson's reputation has begun a stately fall after decades of preeminence. 1

Karl-Friedrich Walling focuses on Hamilton's concern with balancing liberty and power in governing a vast, fragile nation in a world of hostile great powers. Can a republic govern a large territory, preserve itself against foreign encroachments, and maintain liberty at home? Walling argues that Hamilton wrestled with these enduring questions more consistently and coherently, and gave answers more compelling, than those proffered by any other member of the revolutionary generation. For Hamilton, argues Walling, America was a republican empire; governing America required adapting republican principles to the reality of a vast empire. . . .

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