First published: 1999. Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-682) and index.
Contents:
14. English Language: Words as Weaponry? 1. Protestant Background of Anglo-American Expansion and the Cousins' Wars -- Part 2. Early Cousins' Wars -- 2. Anglo-America's First Civil Wars: The British Setting, 1630-1763 -- 3. America, 1763-1775: The Inheritance of Revolutionary Conflict -- 4. British Empire and Civil War in the Western Hemisphere, 1775-1783 -- 5. Making of a Revolution: Patriots, Loyalists, and Neutrals -- 6. Support for the American Revolution Within the British Isles -- 7. Trauma and Triumph: Saratoga and the Revitalization of the British Empire -- Part 3. Final Cousins' War -- 8. Sectionalism, Slavery, and Religion: The Continuity of the Second and Third Cousins' Wars -- 9. Final Cousins' Fight: Causes and Origins of the American Civil War -- 10. U.S. Civil War: Loyalties, Alignments, and Partisanships, 1861-1865 -- 11. U.S. Civil War and the Framework of Anglo-America -- Part 4. Triumph of Anglo-America--War, Population, and English Language Hegemony -- 12. Cousins' Wars and the Shaping of Anglo-American Politics -- 13. Demographic Imperialism: The Second Architecture of Anglo-American Hegemony -- 14. English Language: Words as Weaponry?
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