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Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America »

Authors: Kevin Phillips
ISBN-13: 9780465013708, ISBN-10: 0465013708
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kevin Phillips

Kevin Phillips is the bestselling author of eight previous books, including The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990) and The Emerging Republican Majority (1969). He is also a commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and a contributing columnist for the Los Angeles Times. In 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996, he was a national elections commentator for CBS Television News. He lives in West Goshen, Connecticut.

Book Synopsis

A strikingly fresh and revisionist explanation for the rise of Anglo-America as the dominant cultural and political force in the world today by the bestselling author of The Politics of Rich and Poor

National Review - Michael Lind

His magnum opus...Phillips applies his trademark brand of scholarship to a subject grander than any before, with results that are always thought-provoking.

	Maps and Figures
	Preface
Pt. 1	The Beginnings of Anglo-America and the Setting of the First Cousins' War
1	The Protestant Background of Anglo-American Expansion and the Cousins' Wars	3
Pt. 2	The Early Cousins' Wars
2	Anglo-America's First Civil Wars: The British Setting, 1630-1763	35
3	America, 1763-1775: The Inheritance of Revolutionary Conflict	79
4	The British Empire and Civil War in the Western Hemisphere, 1775-1783	123
5	The Making of a Revolution: Patriots, Loyalists, and Neutrals	161
6	Support for the American Revolution Within the British Isles	233
7	Trauma and Triumph: Saratoga and the Revitalization of the British Empire	269
Pt. 3	The Final Cousins' War
8	Sectionalism, Slavery, and Religion: The Continuity of the Second and Third Cousins' Wars	317
9	The Final Cousins' Fight: Causes and Origins of the American Civil War	363
10	The U.S. Civil War: Loyalties, Alignments, and Partisanships, 1861-1865	407
11	The U.S. Civil War and the Framework of Anglo-America	457
Pt. 4	The Triumph of Anglo-America - War, Population, and English Language Hegemony
12	The Cousins' Wars and the Shaping of Anglo-American Politics	513
13	Demographic Imperialism: The Second Architecture of Anglo-American Hegemony	561
14	The English Language: Words as Weaponry?	597
	Afterword	609
	Appendix 1	613
	Appendix 2	615
	Appendix 3	618
	Notes	632
	Bibliography	669
	Index	683

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Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America »

Author Biography: Kevin Phillips

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National Review - Michael Lind

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