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Unshackling America : how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution

Title: Unshackling America : how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution / Willard Sterne Randall.
Author: Randall, Willard Sterne
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.

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Description

viii, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary Period of 1763 to 1783 had concluded only one part, the first phase of their ordeal. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War halted overt combat but had achieved only partial political autonomy from Britain. By not guaranteeing American economic independence and agency, Britain continued to deny American sovereignty. Randall details the fifty years and persistent attempts by the British to control American trade waters, but he also shows how, despite the outrageous restrictions, the United States asserted the doctrine of neutral rights and developed the world's second largest merchant fleet as it absorbed the French Caribbean trade. American ships carrying trade increased five-fold between 1790 and 1800, its tonnage nearly doubling again between 1800 and 1812, ultimately making the United States the world's largest independent maritime power"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-442) and index.

Contents

"A Glow of Patriotic Fire" -- "Salutary Neglect" -- "Force Prevails Now Everywhere" -- "For Cutting Off Our Trade" -- "To The Shores of Tripoli" -- "The Reign of Witches" -- "Free Trade and Sailors Rights" -- "War Now! War Always!" -- "Remember the Raisin" -- "Purified As by Fire" -- "Father, Listen to Your Children" -- "You Shall Now Feel the Effects of War" -- "Destroy and Lay Waste" -- "Hard War" -- "So Proudly We Hail" -- "I Must Not Be Lost".

Call Number

JFE 17-7944

ISBN

9781250111838
1250111838

LCCN

2017004246
40027300172

OCLC

983786052

Author

Randall, Willard Sterne, author.

Title

Unshackling America : how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution / Willard Sterne Randall.

Publisher

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-442) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1900

Other Standard Identifier

40027300172

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7944

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