Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. 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. Throughout this perilous period; the struggle was all about free trade. 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. 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. 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.
#51996 in Books Cesarani David 2016-11-08 2016-11-08Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.34 x 52.58 x 6.39l; 1.00 #File Name: 12500008311056 pagesFinal Solution The Fate of the Jews 1933 1949
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43 of 47 people found the following review helpful. Final Solution is a brilliant recounting of the inhuman and horrible Nazi plan to totally exterminated the Jews of the WorldBy C. M MillsShoah. Holocaust. The words send cold shivers down the backs of decent human beings. The late Dr. David Cesarani of the University of London has crafted a brilliant book detailing the Dantean horror of Jewish murder which led to the death of over six million Jews in Hitler's evil empire which lasted from 1933-1945. The book is very long; well written with extensive bibliographic entries and pages of footnotes. The book is notable for explaining that;1. The bloody murder of the Jews in all forms from shooting to being beaten to death; torture and ultimately in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other hell holes is seen as a progressive descent into the lowest ring of Hell.2. The fate of Jews in all the nations ruled by the Nazis is covered in depth.3. Chilling anecdotes are related from the mouths of eyewitnesses to the horrors.4. The basically indifferent response by Western democracies to the plight of the hapless Jews is explored.5. The book shows how Nazi defeat on the steppes of Russia led to greater numbers of the Jews being slaughtered since there was no place to send them for slave labor purposes in the vast Soviet Union. The Germans had envisaged German settlers moving into Poland; Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia but they failed in this military effort.6. The author explores how diplomacy functioned in the fate of the Jews. This is a grim and horrible tale of man's inhumanity to man. Anti-Semitism was horrible then and it is so today. This is a readable; well written and explained exploration of the worst evil in human history. The book is destined to become a classic in its grim field.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. it is a most comprehensive history of the world's worst purposeful takeover of a government and targeted genocideBy Theodore M. WightAlthough only 20% finished; it is a most comprehensive history of the world's worst purposeful takeover of a government and targeted genocide. A must read for anyone living in the United States of America to see how it possibly is occurring here.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Lloyd YoungSuperb history of the Holocaust - great product - superb service. Well satisfied.
