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

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Label

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

Title remainder

how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution

Statement of responsibility

Willard Sterne Randall

Creator

• Randall, Willard Sterne

Author

• Randall, Willard Sterne

Subject

• Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
• HISTORY / Revolutionary
• HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
• International trade -- History
• Merchant marine -- United States -- History
• Free trade -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History
• United States -- History -- 1783-1815
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
• United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Causes
• World politics -- To 1900
• United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain
• Free trade -- Political aspects -- United States -- History

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.5/2

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

E354

LC item number

.R36 2017

Literary form

non fiction