Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-682) and index.
Contents:
ch. 14. English language: words as weaponry? ch. 1. Protestant background of Anglo-American expansion and the cousins' wars -- pt. 2. Early cousins' wars -- ch. 2. Anglo-Amnerica's first civil wars: the British setting, 1630-1763 -- ch. 3. America, 1763-1775: the inheritance of revolutionary conflict -- ch. 4. British empire and civil war in the western hemisphere, 1775-1783 -- ch. 5. Making of a revolution: patriots, loyalists, and neutrals -- ch. 6. Support for the American revolution within the British Isles -- ch. 7. Trauma and triumph: Saratoga and the revitalization of the British empire -- pt. 3. Final cousins' war -- ch. 8. Sectionalism, slavery, and religion: the continuity of the second and third cousins' wars -- ch. 9. Final cousins' fight: causes and origins of the American civil war -- ch. 10. U.S. civil war: loyalties, alignments, and partisanships, 1861-1865 -- ch. 11. U.S. civil war and the framework of Anglo-America -- pt. 4. Triumph of Anglo-America: war, population, and English language hegemony -- ch. 12. Cousins' wars and the shaping of Anglo-American politics -- ch. 13. Demographic imperialism: the second architecture of Anglo-American hegemony -- ch. 14. English language: words as weaponry?
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