Marlborough's America

by Stephen Saunders Webb

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030017859X
• ISBN13: 9780300178593
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"