The owner of The Cornish Arms gastropub adjusts the Union Flag alongside the American Flag on the exterior of the pub in St Ives, Cornwall on June 10, 2021, ahead of the three-day G7 summit.
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Danny and Derek are joined by historian Andrew Shankman to talk about the road to US independence from Great Britain. They discuss differences between Spanish and British colonization strategies, the intellectual and philosophical origins of the American Revolution, the Stamp Act crisis, distinctions in racial conceptions between the American colonies and the West Indies, key revolutionary figures, the early American republic, the unique economic situation of Boston and Massachusetts, and post-Revolution relations with Britain and Indigenous peoples.
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