Marlborough's America / Stephen Saunders Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Stephen Saunders, 1937-

Series:

Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722--Military leadership.

Marlborough, John Churchill.

Imperialism--History--18th century.

Imperialism.

Military government of dependencies.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Administration.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xxiii, 579 p., [44] p. of plates) ) ill. (some col.), maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of "salutary neglect," but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist, coercive, and aggressive, owing to the vigorous leadership of career army officers, trained and nominated to American government by the captain general of the allied armies, the first duke of Marlborough, and that his influence, and that of his legates, prevailed through the entire century in America. Webb's work follows the duke, whom an eloquent enemy described as "the greatest statesman and the greatest general that this country or any other country has produced," his staff and soldiers, through the ten campaigns, which, by defanging France, made the union with Scotland possible and made "Great Britain" preeminent in the Atlantic world. Then Webb demonstrates that the duke's legates transformed American colonies into provinces of empire. Marlborough's America, fifty years in the making, is the fourth volume of The Governors-General.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface: Army and Empire

ENVOY : "The Sunshine Day"

CHAPTER ONE: Grand Designs

Chapter Two: The March to the Danube

Chapter Three: Blenheim

Chapter Four: Greater Britain

Chapter Five: Ramillies and Union

Chapter Six: Oudenarde

Chapter Seven: Malplaquet

Chapter Eight: The Duke's Decline

Chapter Nine: Quebec and Bouchain

Chapter Ten: The Dreadful Death of Daniel Parke

Chapter Eleven: Defending the Revolution: Robert Hunter in New York

Chapter Twelve: Alexander Spotswood: Architect of Empire

Epilogue: The "Golden Adventure"

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-553) and index.

ISBN:

1-299-46359-2

0-300-18260-0

OCLC:

839387019