Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NBHC822 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 374 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife, with whom he has co-authored multiple volumes of history. WILLARD STERNE RANDALLis a journalist and author of several biographies of Founding Fathers. He is a Distinguished Scholar in History and Professor at Champlain College
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. 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. 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. 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 worl
An important book." Jack Kelly, author of Band of Giants and Heaven's Ditch"After America's War of Independence ended in 1783, the British proved to be sore losers. The big issues of that era--free trade, a refugee crisis, brutal party rivalries, and foreign meddling in American affairs–resonate with our own headlines. Instead, he lays out a convincing case that this war must be seen as the culmination of the American struggle for independence from Great Britain that began in 1776. Madison’s War,” and the drama of the military and naval battles that followed. This is history as it should be written: illuminating insights grounded in gritty reality. Randall's Unshackling America makes a detail