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(0)Richard Buel
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"Historical Dictionary of the Early American Republic recounts the achievements and failures, progress and backsliding, and high and low points of our forefathers. First traced in the chronology and then explained in the introduction, the story of our nation's formative years is laid out in great detail. Numerous dictionary entries describe eminent people, evolving institutions, and significant events faced by the young country. An extensive bibliography...
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"Richard Buel Jr. here investigates for the first time the influence of Britain's navy on the American revolutionary economy, particularly its agricultural sector, and the damage that Britain inflicted by seizing major colonial centers and denying Americans access to overseas markets. Drawing on documents newly culled from American, British, and French archives, the author shows how the French alliance, naval operations in the Atlantic and Caribbean,...