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Marlboroughs America
Author: Stephen Saunders Webb
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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. **Review This is an extremely well-researched, well-written and iconoclastic book that makes an important, if controversial argument. . . . This book is a monument to scholarship.Steve Pincus, Yale University (Steve Pincus) [Webb] presents a splendid panorama of events on both sides of the Atlantic during a crucial era. . . . The result is a signal contribution to our understanding of the making and workings of early 18th-century empire.Richard Johnson, University of Washington (Richard Johnson) Readers will be surprised to learn just how much of our early history was shaped by none other than the great ancestor of Winston Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, in a work that wears its erudition lightly, but illuminates yet another way in which the Atlantic Ocean was more bridge than barrier between the Old World and the New.Webb weaves a compelling account of the relationships between 18th-century strategy, patronage, and colonial politics.And he does so with a shrewd eye and sardonic wit.Eliot A. Cohen, author of Conquered into Liberty Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War (Eliot A. Cohen) [A] brilliant, unconventional work . . . theres no denying the importance of this book or its likely appeal to readers interested in British, imperial, military, classic, top-down history.Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly) Masterful . . . Stephen Saunders Webb has made us see a great man in an even greater light. Thomas Donnelly, Weekly Standard (Thomas Donnelly The Weekly Standard 2013-04-01) Webb makes a valuable contribution by placing the political history of the American colonies in an Atlantic context.T. H. Breen, Times Literary Supplement, (T. H. Breen Times Literary Supplemeny 2013-08-16) About the Author Stephen Saunders Webb is the Maxwell Professor of History and Social Science, and Professor of History, Emeritus, in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.He is the author of The Governors-General, 1676, and Lord Churchills Coup.
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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. **Review This is an extremely well-researched, well-written and iconoclastic book that makes an important, if controversial argument. . . . This book is a monument to scholarship.Steve Pincus, Yale University (Steve Pincus) [Webb] presents a splendid panorama of events on both sides of the Atlantic during a crucial era. . . . The result is a signal contribution to our understanding of the making and workings of early 18th-century empire.Richard Johnson, University of Washington (Richard Johnson) Readers will be surprised to learn just how much of our early history was shaped by none other than the great ancestor of Winston Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, in a work that wears its erudition lightly, but illuminates yet another way in which the Atlantic Ocean was more bridge than barrier between the Old World and the New.Webb weaves a compelling account of the relationships between 18th-century strategy, patronage, and colonial politics.And he does so with a shrewd eye and sardonic wit.Eliot A. Cohen, author of Conquered into Liberty Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War (Eliot A. Cohen) [A] brilliant, unconventional work . . . theres no denying the importance of this book or its likely appeal to readers interested in British, imperial, military, classic, top-down history.Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly) Masterful . . . Stephen Saunders Webb has made us see a great man in an even greater light. Thomas Donnelly, Weekly Standard (Thomas Donnelly The Weekly Standard 2013-04-01) Webb makes a valuable contribution by placing the political history of the American colonies in an Atlantic context.T. H. Breen, Times Literary Supplement, (T. H. Breen Times Literary Supplemeny 2013-08-16) About the Author Stephen Saunders Webb is the Maxwell Professor of History and Social Science, and Professor of History, Emeritus, in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.He is the author of The Governors-General, 1676, and Lord Churchills Coup.
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