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The cousins' wars : religion, politics, and the triumph of Anglo-America / Kevin Phillips.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 209 .P48 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Kevin, 1940-2023.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Religious aspects.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects.
- Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Religious aspects.
- Great Britain.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1649.
- Religion and politics--United States--History.
- Religion and politics.
- Religion and politics--Great Britain--History.
- Politics and war--History.
- Politics and war.
- Politics and government.
- War--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 707 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, ©1999.
- Summary:
- The question at the heart of The Cousins' Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom into a global community with such a cultural and linguistic hegemonic grip on the world today, while the other European powers - from Spain to Germany - did not. The answer to this, according to Phillips, can be found in a close examination of the English-speaking people's three major internecine conflicts - the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. These wars between cousins functioned as crucial anvils on which various religious, ethnic, and political alignments and successes were hammered out, setting Great Britain and America on a unique two-track path toward world leadership.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Beginnings of Anglo-America and the setting of the first cousins' war
- ch. 1. Protestant background of Anglo-American expansion and the cousins' wars
- pt. 2. Early cousins' wars
- ch. 2. Anglo-Amnerica's first civil wars: the British setting, 1630-1763
- ch. 3. America, 1763-1775: the inheritance of revolutionary conflict
- ch. 4. British empire and civil war in the Western Hemisphere, 1775-1783
- ch. 5. Making of a revolution: patriots, loyalists, and neutrals
- ch. 6. Support for the American Revolution within the British Isles
- ch. 7. Trauma and triumph: Saratoga and the revitalization of the British Empire
- pt. 3. Final cousins' war
- ch. 8. Sectionalism, slavery, and religion: the continuity of the second and third cousins' wars
- ch. 9. Final cousins' fight: causes and origins of the American Civil War
- ch. 10. U.S. Civil War: loyalties, alignments, and partisanships, 1861-1865
- ch. 11. U.S. Civil War and the framework of Anglo-America
- pt. 4. Triumph of Anglo-America: war, population, and English language hegemony
- ch. 12. Cousins' wars and the shaping of Anglo-American politics
- ch. 13. Demographic imperialism: the second architecture of Anglo-American hegemony
- ch. 14. English language: words as weaponry?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 669-682) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Phillips, Kevin, 1940- Cousins' wars.
- ISBN:
- 0465013694
- 9780465013692
- 0465013708
- 9780465013708
- OCLC:
- 40255958
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
- Publisher description
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