Britain's Colonial Wars, 1688-1783

ISBN-13: 9780582424012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 294 str.

Bruce A. Lehman; Bruce Lenman

Opis

From Europe to India and America, Britain's Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century, between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution, the modern British state was born. The Dutch William III tended to treat his British realms as a unit. The Act of Union of 1707 under the very English Queen Anne merged England and Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain. War was the midwife at its birth. War rather than peace was the norm between 1688 and 1783. The War of the Grand Alliance at the beginning of the period ended with a peace of exhaustion. But the security of British interests remained precarious. For the next decade Britain and France fought the War of Spanish Succession, and even the general peace that followed was punctuated by Jacobite rebellion and clashes with Spain. The peacemaking Sir Robert Walpole could not prevent the War of Jenkins' Ear with Spain in 1739. Britain lost that war, and the conflict with France which grew out of it.The Seven Years War of 1756 - 1763 was the only war of the entire period ending with a clear British victory, with spectacular imperial gains from

Spis treści

List of Maps Acknowledgements Introduction: Colonies, identities, Marx and Mars PART ONE. THE ENGLISH NATION AND THE RISE OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN TO 1760 PART TWO. THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF IMPERIAL FUTURES AND THE FINAL FISSURING OF THE ENGLISHRY 1760-1783 Conclusion: Tides of empire and fortunes of war Further reading Index

O autorze

Bruce Lenman