The fourth kingdom / Giselle Frances Donnelly

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, Giselle Frances, author.

Series:

Personality of American power ; v. 2.

The personality of American power ; volume two

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American--History.

National characteristics, American.

National characteristics, British--History--17th century.

National characteristics, British.

Strategic culture--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Strategic culture.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

Great Britain.

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

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

Colonies.

Colonies--Administration.

America.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2026]

Summary:

Charts the founding of the American Empire.The Fourth Kingdom is the second volume in a series of books, The Personality of American Power , tracing the distinctive continuities in the American way of war and strategy-making

"The Fourth Kingdom is the second volume in a series of books, The Personality of American Power, tracing the distinctive continuities in the American way of war and strategy-making. A handful of themes emerge: securing the continuity and legitimacy of the Anglo-American regime; grounding the use of state power in political principles and ideology; calculating security interests in a fully global geopolitical context; seeing the path to great-power status as leading to westward, transatlantic expansion; differing strategic views between the imperial frontier and the metropolis; and an ongoing contest between advocates of a "blue-water," maritime, "off-shore balancing" approach to both colonial and continental affairs and promoters of direct engagement to achieve a favorable great-power balance. Seeing the North American colonies as a developing "Fourth Kingdom" adds a new dimension to the dominant "three-kingdoms" historiography of the tumultuous Stuart and Cromwellian years. Between the founding of the Jamestown colony and the carving-out of "Penn's Woods" seven decades later, English settlers came to control the critical seaports of North America, all but excluding other European powers"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Rex pacificus

The conquest of Tsennecommacah

Stuart implosion

Empires for the godly

Restoration and New York

Carolina and the Restoration crisis

Hues and cries

The empire strikes back

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed May 15, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Donnelly, Giselle Frances Fourth kingdom

ISBN:

9798855806632

9798855806625

OCLC:

1584385591

Publisher Number:

CIPO000364922

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license