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The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America

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The question at the heart of The Cousins’ Wars is this: How did Anglo-The usa evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom into a global community with the sort of hegemonic grip on the world today, whilst no other European power—Spain, France, Germany, or Russia—did? The answer to this, according to Phillips, lies in a close examination of three internecine English-speaking civil wars—the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. These wars between cousins functioned as crucial anvils on which more than a few religious, ethnic, and political alliances were hammered out between the English-speaking cousin-nations, setting them on a unique two-track path toward world leadership—one aristocratic and aloof to dominate the imperial nineteenth century and the other more egalitarian and democratic to take over in the twentieth century. They also functioned as unfortunate and deadly cultural crucibles for African Americans, Native Americans, and the Irish.Phillips’s analysis shows exactly how these conflicts are inextricably linked and how they seeded each other. He offers regularly surprising interpretations that cut across the political spectrum—for instance, that the Constitution of the United States, whilst brilliant in many respects, was also a fatally improper political compromise that contributed mightily in setting the stage for the final—and the bloodiest—cousins’ war: the American Civil War.With the new millennium upon us and triggering widespread assessment of our nation’s place in world history, The Cousins’ Wars provides just the kind of magisterial sweep and revisionist spark to ignite widespread interest and debate. This grand religious, military, and political epic is the multi-dimensional story of the triumph of Anglo-The usa.

Political commentator Kevin Phillips (writer of the 1991 bestseller The Politics of Rich and Poor) takes a break from analyzing the latest election returns with this sweeping history of Anglo-American exceptionalism. How did the political culture of Anglo-The usa rise “from a small Tudor kingdom to a global community and world hegemony”? asks Phillips. His answer comes all through studying three wars–the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the U.S. Civil War. Phillips does not examine the military history of these conflicts, looking instead at the political, religious, economic, and sectional interests that shaped them. He makes several eye-opening observations, comparing, for instance, a “state-by-state portrait of which counties, towns, districts, or regions were loyal” throughout the American Revolution to “ethnoreligious maps of the modern-day Balkans.” This can be a hefty book (over 600 pages, not including appendices and footnotes), and whilst Phillips’s preface is a bit self-absorbed, admirers of David Landes’s The Wealth and Poverty of Nations and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel will find much to like between its covers. –John J. Miller

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