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 US may have had more in common with traditional developing nations than we have generally recognised. Haynes argues that the young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial rule.