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 ...
Read More
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 .
Read Less
Add this copy of Marlborough's America to cart. $17.00, very good condition, Sold by Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A. rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salt Lake City, UT, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of Marlborough's America (the Lewis Walpole Series in to cart. $19.50, very good condition, Sold by Books End Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from SYRACUSE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of Marlborough's America (the Lewis Walpole Series in to cart. $21.51, good condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of Marlborough's America (the Lewis Walpole Series in to cart. $29.70, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of Marlborough's America (the Lewis Walpole Series in to cart. $52.48, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of Marlborough's America to cart. $57.00, like new condition, Sold by The History Place rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palestine, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Yale University Art Gallery.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine. As new. First Printing. ISBN: 978-0-300-17859-3. This is a volume in the Lewis Walpole Series In Eighteenth-Century Culture And History. It is also the fourth volume in Webb's The Governors-General series. Webb's thesis in this volume is that the first Duke of Marlborough's appointment of army officers, trained by him and selected by him for leadreship, led to the American provinces becoming more aggressive, capitalist, and coercive in the early Eighteenth Century. He covers twelve of Marlborough's campaigns in this volume and analyses the period to the death of the Duke. He also surveys the legacy of those early years for the story of the remainder of the century. Color illustrations feature the beautiful Blenheim Victories tapestries. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover.
