The Cousins' War: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America

SOFTBACK "HARD TO FIND OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Basic Books, New York.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a canon being used on the battlefield. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine, none to hinge. Seems un-used. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawn maps within text throughout.* Pages: 607 pp. text. ci pp. afterword, appendices, notes, bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The question at the heart of The Cousins' Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom into a global community with such a hegemonic grip on the world today, while no other European power, Spain, France, Germany, or Russia, did? The answer to this, according to Phillips, lies in a close examination of three internecine English-speaking civil wars, the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. These wars between cousins functioned as crucial anvils on which various religious, ethnic, and political alliances were hammered out between the English-speaking cousin-nations, setting them on a unique two-track path toward world leadership, one aristocratic and aloof to dominate the imperial nineteenth century and the other more egalitarian and democratic to take over in the twentieth century.This is a FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. fnl, with no visible faults AS NEW.*