Marlborough's America /Stephen Saunders Webb.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface: Army and Empire""; ""Envoy: “The Sunshine Day�""; ""PART I: WINNING AMERICA IN EUROPE: PR�CIS""; ""Chapter One: Grand Designs""; ""Chapter Two: The March to the Danube""; ""Chapter Three: Blenheim""; ""Chapter Four: Greater Britain""; ""Chapter Five: Ramillies and Union""; ""PART II: “THE ENDLESS WAR�: PR�CIS""; ""Chapter Six: Oudenarde""; ""Chapter Seven: Malplaquet""; ""Chapter Eight: The Duke�s Decline""; ""Chapter Nine: Quebec and Bouchain""; ""PART III: MARLBOROUGH�S AMERICA: PR�CIS"" ""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early 18th-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of 'salutary neglect', but, in this book, Stephen Saunders Webb demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist, coercive, and aggresive.
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Imperialism--History--18th century. Military government of dependencies.