Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution

. He is a Distinguished Scholar in History and Professor at Champlain College. WILLARD STERNE RANDALLis a journalist and author of several biographies of Founding Fathers. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife, with whom he has co-authored multiple volumes of history

Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. 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. 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.. Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. By not guarante

"A well-researched history that shows how the War of 1812 created America's final separation from England." Kirkus Reviews"Randall brings to life the violent skirmishes that played out in the name of trade on sea, lake, and land." Publishers Weekly"Randall is an engaging and adept storyteller" Library Journal"Those who enjoy reading history will profit from this book." The Oklahoman"In Unshackling America, Willard Randall gives us an account of the early republic that finally makes sense of the “forgotten” War of 1812, even as it turns the conflict itself into an exciting dram