LEADER 04159nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910779566503321 005 20230803020517.0 010 $a1-299-46359-2 010 $a0-300-18260-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300182606 035 $a(CKB)2550000001019299 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171578 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860479 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475155 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860479 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10917068 035 $a(PQKB)11455847 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421184 035 $a(DE-B1597)486056 035 $a(OCoLC)839387019 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300182606 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421184 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687936 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477609 035 $a(OCoLC)923603011 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001019299 100 $a20120516d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMarlborough's America$b[electronic resource] /$fStephen Saunders Webb 210 $aNew Haven ;$aLondon $cYale University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xxiii, 579 p., [44] p. of plates) )$cill. (some col.), maps 225 1 $aThe Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-17859-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [415]-553) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface: Army and Empire -- $tENVOY : "The Sunshine Day" -- $tCHAPTER ONE: Grand Designs -- $tChapter Two: The March to the Danube -- $tChapter Three: Blenheim -- $tChapter Four: Greater Britain -- $tChapter Five: Ramillies and Union -- $tChapter Six: Oudenarde -- $tChapter Seven: Malplaquet -- $tChapter Eight: The Duke's Decline -- $tChapter Nine: Quebec and Bouchain -- $tChapter Ten: The Dreadful Death of Daniel Parke -- $tChapter Eleven: Defending the Revolution: Robert Hunter in New York -- $tChapter Twelve: Alexander Spotswood: Architect of Empire -- $tEpilogue: The "Golden Adventure" -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aScholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of "salutary neglect," but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist, coercive, and aggressive, owing to the vigorous leadership of career army officers, trained and nominated to American government by the captain general of the allied armies, the first duke of Marlborough, and that his influence, and that of his legates, prevailed through the entire century in America. Webb's work follows the duke, whom an eloquent enemy described as "the greatest statesman and the greatest general that this country or any other country has produced," his staff and soldiers, through the ten campaigns, which, by defanging France, made the union with Scotland possible and made "Great Britain" preeminent in the Atlantic world. Then Webb demonstrates that the duke's legates transformed American colonies into provinces of empire. Marlborough's America, fifty years in the making, is the fourth volume of The Governors-General. 410 0$aLewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history. 606 $aImperialism$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMilitary government of dependencies 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xAdministration 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1660-1714 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory 615 0$aMilitary government of dependencies. 676 $a941.06/9092 700 $aWebb$b Stephen Saunders$f1937-$0790537 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779566503321 996 $aMarlborough's America$93737302 997 $aUNINA