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dc.contributor.advisorSmith, Gene Allen
dc.contributor.authorNegus, Samuel D.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialUnited States Great Britain.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialGreat Britain United States.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-22T18:49:00Z
dc.date.available2014-07-22T18:49:00Z
dc.date.created2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.identifieretd-05212013-113146en_US
dc.identifierumi-10381en_US
dc.identifiercat-002008208en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/4487
dc.description.abstractThe Jay-Grenville Treaty, signed between Great Britain and the United States in 1795, resolved numerous outstanding diplomatic disputes and diffused a potential second Anglo-American war. It provided ten years of peace, and through new commercial opportunities materially aided a decade of remarkable American economic growth. Yet the treaty caused considerable political controversy in the United States. The compromise it involved on liberal principles of maritime law proved politically unpopular with instinctively Anglophobic Jeffersonian Republicans. Bitter memory of defeat in the treaty ratification later led President Thomas Jefferson to reject a second Anglo-American treaty in 1806, after the first had expired. Though not solely responsible, this decision led directly to the War of 1812. Chapter one employs British records to show how far the Jay-Grenville Treaty improved the fortunes of American merchants in admiralty court proceedings. Chapter two uses personal papers of American merchants to examine their collective view of the treaty. Chapter three analyzes the importance of the treaty to Alexander Hamilton's theory of political economy, focusing particularly on finance and social mobility. Chapter four shows the very different theory of political held by Thomas Jefferson, explaining why the treaty proved so controversial despite its successful operation. Chapter five uses newspapers to describe popular engagement with the political issues outlined in chapters three and four, emphasizing the treaty's role in the emergence of American democracy.
dc.format.mediumFormat: Onlineen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,en_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUMI thesis.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertation.en_US
dc.relation.requiresMode of access: World Wide Web.en_US
dc.relation.requiresSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.en_US
dc.subject.lcshGreat Britain. 1794 November 19.en_US
dc.subject.lcshUnited States Foreign relations Great Britain.en_US
dc.subject.lcshGreat Britain Foreign relations United States.en_US
dc.subject.lcshUnited States Foreign relations 1783-1815.en_US
dc.titleFurther concessions cannot be attained: the Jay-Grenville Treaty and the politics of Anglo-American relations, 1789-1807en_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of History
etd.degree.levelDoctoral
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentHistory
local.academicunitDepartment of History
dc.type.genreDissertation
local.subjectareaHistory
etd.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
etd.degree.grantorTexas Christian University


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