{"product_id":"the-cousins-wars-kevin-p-phillips-9780465013692","title":"The Cousins' Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 . The goal of this book is to explain the evolution of Anglo-America from a small Tudor  kingdom into a global community and cultural world hegemony. It does this by examining a famous trio of English-speaking civil wars: the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. It is also a book about religionabout the interaction of creed, politics, and war during three centuries when faith played a much larger role than now. Religion and war played a central (and until now neglected) role in the rise of Britain and then America. These three wars were won each time by a kindred coalition of dissenting  Protestantism, commercial acumen, and global expansion. Aristocratic, high-church, and status-quo mindsets were defeated.\n\u003cbr\u003eAll three conflicts divided English-speakers on  both sides of the Atlantic along ethnic\/religious lines that influenced political and economic developments in the 19th  century and shaped the development of Anglo-American culture in such a way that it secured world dominance. No previous  book has explained how this happened. }The question at the heart of The Cousins Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom into a global community with such a hegemonic grip on the  world today, while 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 warsthe English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War.\n\u003cbr\u003eThese wars between  cousins functioned as crucial anvils on which various 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.Phillipss analysis shows exactly how these conflicts are inextricably linked and how they seeded each other. He offers often surprising interpretations that cut across the political spectrum - for instance, that the  Constitution of the United States, while brilliant in many respects, was also a fatally flawed 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 nations place in world history, The Cousins Wars  provides just the kind of magisterial sweep and revisionist  spark to ignite widespread interest and debate.\n\u003cbr\u003eThis grand religious, military, and political epic is the multi-dimensional story of the triumph of Anglo-America. }\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin P. Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46144436732147,"sku":"8880002614861","price":21.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-cousins-wars-kevin-p-phillips-9780465013692","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}