After the War of 1812 the United States remained a cultural and
economic satellite of the world's most powerful empire. Though
political independence had been won, John Bull intruded upon
virtually every aspect of public life, from politics to economic
development to literature to the performing arts. Many Americans
resented their subordinate role in the transatlantic equation and,
as earnest republicans, felt compelled to sever the ties that still
connected the two nations. At the same time, the pull of Britain's
centripetal orbit remained strong, so that Americans also harbored
an unseemly, almost desperate need for validation from the nation
that had given rise to their republic.
The tensions inherent in this paradoxical relationship are the
focus of "Unfinished Revolution." Conflicted and complex, American
attitudes toward Great Britain provided a framework through which
citizens of the republic developed a clearer sense of their
national identity. Moreover, an examination of the transatlantic
relationship from an American perspective suggests that the United
States may have had more in common with traditional developing
nations than we have generally recognized. Writing from the vantage
point of America's unrivaled global dominance, historians have
tended to see in the young nation the superpower it would become.
Haynes here argues that, for all its vaunted claims of
distinctiveness and the soaring rhetoric of "manifest destiny," the
young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among
nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial
rule.
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