Marlborough's America /

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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webb, Stephen Saunders, 1937-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=568278
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface: Army and Empire
  • Envoy: “The Sunshine Dayâ€?
  • PART I: WINNING AMERICA IN EUROPE: PRÃ?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 WARâ€?: PRÃ?CIS
  • Chapter Six: Oudenarde
  • Chapter Seven: Malplaquet
  • Chapter Eight: The Dukeâ€?s Decline
  • Chapter Nine: Quebec and Bouchain
  • PART III: MARLBOROUGHâ€?S AMERICA: PRÃ?CIS
  • Chapter Ten: The Dreadful Death of Daniel ParkeChapter Eleven: Defending the Revolution: Robert Hunter in New York
  • Chapter Twelve: Alexander Spotswood: Architect of Empire
  • Epilogue: The “Golden Adventureâ€?
  • 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
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