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From Europe to India and America, Britains Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century, between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution, the modern British state was born. The Dutch William III tended to treat his British realms as a unit. The Act of Union of 1707 under the very English Queen Anne merged England and Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain. War was the midwife at its birth. War rather than peace was the norm between 1688 and 1783. The War of the Grand Alliance at the beginning of the period ended with a peace of exhaustion. But the security of British interests remained precarious. For the next decade Britain and France fought the War of Spanish Succession, and even the general peace that followed was punctuated by Jacobite rebellion and clashes with Spain. The peacemaking Sir Robert Walpole could not prevent the War of Jenkins Ear with Spain in 1739. Britain lost that war, and the conflict with France which grew out of it.The Seven Years War of 1756 - 1763 was the only war of the entire period ending with a clear British victory, with spectacular imperial gains from Quebec to Bengal. But excessive triumph proved a poisoned chalice. Within a dozen years, the global monarchy of George III and the British identities it embodied were convulsed by the War of American Independence.This penetrating new analysis questions the centrality of the colonial enterprise to Westminster policy-makers obsessed with European issues. Nevertheless it explains how the impact of their strategies necessarily shaped the destiny of a multi-national and incoherent empire beyond the shores of Europe. Bruce Lenman is Professor of Modern History in the University of St. Andrews. He has also written Englands Colonial Wars 1550-1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity.

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BRITAINS COLONIAL WARS 1688-1783 Modern Wars in Perspective General Editors - photo 1
BRITAIN'S COLONIAL WARS 1688-1783
Modern Wars in Perspective
General Editors: H.M. Scott and B.W. Collins
This ambitions new series offers wide-ranging studies of specific wars, and distinct phases of warfare, from the close of the Middle Ages to the present day. It aims to advance the current integration of millitary history into the academic mainstream. To that end, the books are not merely traditional campaign narratives, but examine the causes, course and consequences of major conflicts, in their full international political, social and ideological contexts.
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Britains Colonial Wars 16881783
Bruce P. Lenman
First published 2001 by Pearson Education Limited Published 2014 by Routledge 2 - photo 2
First published 2001 by Pearson Education Limited
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This book, like the larger project of which it is the second part, has taken many more years to complete than I had originally envisaged. Over a dozen years have passed since the original contract was signed and there had been a great deal of thinking, reading and researching invested in what are now key parts of it in the previous decade. I am therefore more than usually indebted to others for the fact that it has reached publication, albeit in a much-changed format. First and foremost I owe thanks to Pearson Education for their patient and constructive encouragement in recent years; for their willingness to re-contract; and for their admirably professional editorial procedures from which I have derived much benefit.
I cannot say, as did one eminent English historian recently, that every word of his major work was written abroad. I stand heavily indebted to bodies such as the National Library of Scotland and the British Library. Within the latter my obligation to what used to be the India Office Library and Records and is now the Oriental and India Office Collections is such that I simply cannot express it in words. From my first worthwhile experience in historical research there in the early 1960s to the ongoing encouragement and companionship of its scholarly guardians now, I have derived immense benefit. When purely local library resources ceased to be of any utility, as they did as early as 1996, it was bodies like these, and their American cousins which enabled me to continue this project. Amongst the latter I must record assistance with relevant material going back to 1982. Among my major benefactors have been the Newberry Library of Chicago; the John Carter Brown Library of Providence, Rhode Island; the Folger Library in Washington DC; the Virginia Historical Society; and the Huntington Library of San Marino, CA. To list individuals would be invidious and interminable, but the courtesy, and respect for scholars and scholarship which characterises all the libraries I have mentioned, alone makes the historian's always self-isolating, and often sullen craft tolerable.
In the Department of Modern History in St Andrews I have learned much from the students who have endured my honours classes in North American colonial warfare; and on His Late Sacred Majesty King James VI & I and his kingdoms, as well as my special subject on the East India Company and India. They have made me defend my positions, and indeed beat one or two hasty retreats, to all our benefit. The department has underlined for me the mutual dependence of teaching and research, while the School of History has been both understanding and generous in supporting my research. From colleagues at the College of William and Mary and from a colleague in Emory University I learned much that compensated for my ignorance in areas important to this book. Of all my colleagues, it is not invidious to single out my long-suffering series editor Professor Hamish Scott for support above and beyond the call of duty, including bibliographical knowledge of matters imperial truly impressive even from a scholar in the apostolic succession of Edinburgh diplomatic historians deriving from Sir Richard Lodge.
Though I was able to incorporate the most important relevant works appearing in 1999, I regret that Fred Anderson's distinguished Crucible of War (Alfred Knopf, New York, 2000), came out after my own book was in galley proof. I am relieved to find that though our approaches and frames of reference could not be more different, I am in complete agreement with its main conclusions. The wonderful narrative style which makes it the twenty-first century replacement for Francis Parkman's classic nineteenth-century narratives is quite beyond my range. I end by dedicating this volume not to an individual but to a national tradition to which I am a very minor adherent. The Scots historians of empire trace their ancestry to the Scottish Enlightenment and to the man who was much its greatest all-round figure the Very Reverend Principal William Robertson, Moderate divine and historian of Scotland, America and India. In recent decades scholars like my old teacher Archie Thornton, and my own contemporaries like Gordon Stewart and John Mackenzie, have maintained that tradition. Their gritty integrity and scholarly bite has not always endeared their work to others swayed by contemporary fashions in thought. May this work add rather than detract from a tradition of which my own small nation, indeed any nation, should be proud.
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