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100 1 $aRandall, Willard Sterne,$eauthor.
245 10$aUnshackling America :$bhow the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution /$cWillard Sterne Randall.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c[2017].
300 $aviii, 452 p., 8 unnumbered p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 427-442) and index.
505 0 $a"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!" -- "A Mere Matter of Marching" -- "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".
520 2 $a"Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unrelenting struggle for economic independence from Britain, overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the contest was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary War concluded only the first phase of their ordeal. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 halted overt combat but achieved only partial political autonomy from Britain. By not guaranteeing American economic independence and agency, Britain continued to deny American sovereignty. Randall reexamines the fifty year struggle and persistent attempts by the British to stifle American trade. He shows how, despite outrageous restrictions, the United States asserted a new doctrine of neutral rights, developing the world's second-largest merchant fleet as it absorbed France's Caribbean trade during the Napoleonic Wars. America increased its transatlantic carrying trade fivefold in a single decade. The final act of this dramatic confrontation ended in a bloodystalemate that left the United States the world's largest independent maritime power"--Provided by publisher.
650 0$aWorld politics$yTo 1900.
650 0$aInternational trade$xHistory.
650 0$aFree trade$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0$aFree trade$xPolitical aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0$aMerchant marine$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0$aUnited States$xHistory$yWar of 1812$xCauses.
651 0$aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783.
651 0$aUnited States$xHistory$y1783-1815.
651 0$aUnited States$xForeign economic relations$zGreat Britain.
651 0$aGreat Britain$xForeign economic relations$zUnited States.