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Remaking the British Atlantic - The United States and the British Empire after American Independence (Hardcover, New)
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Remaking the British Atlantic - The United States and the British Empire after American Independence (Hardcover, New)
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Remaking the British Atlantic focuses on a crucial phase in the
history of British-American relations: the first ten years of
American Independence. These set the pattern for some years to
come. On the one hand, there was to be no effective political
rapprochement after rebellion and war. Mainstream British opinion
was little influenced by the failure to subdue the revolt or by the
emergence of a new America, for which they mostly felt distain.
What were taken to be the virtues of the British constitution were
confidently reasserted and there was little inclination either to
disengage from empire or to manage it in different ways, as is
shown in chapters dealing with Britain's continuing imperial
commitments around the Atlantic. For their part, many Americans
defined the new order that they were seeking to establish by their
rejection of what they took to be the abuses of contemporary
Britain. On the other hand, neither the trauma of war nor the
failure to create harmonious political relations could prevent the
re-establishment of the very close links that had spanned the
pre-war Atlantic, locking people on both sides of it into close
connections with one another. Many British migrants still went to
America. Britain remained America's dominant trading partner.
American tastes and the intellectual life of the new republic
continued to be largely reflections of British tastes and ideas.
America and Britain were too important for too many people in too
many ways for political alienation to keep them apart.
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