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The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America
The question at the heart of 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-America.
Paperback, 736 pages
Published
January 7th 2000
by Basic Books
(first published November 30th 1998)
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What a slog! This is a big, dense book. But, if you are a fan of early American History, this is a book not to pass up. I have had this book sitting on my selves for over a decade, buying it when it first came out. I now wish I read it much sooner than this. This is the first book I have read by Phillips, and if they are as all well researched and crafted as this, he is well worth the time and effort to read. The subtitle gives a good insight into the focus of the book. Phillips interweav...more
I came to this as a family historian concerned about whether the consecration of an Episcopal sisterhood, The Community of St. Mary, in my great great grandfather's NYC church, by Bishop Horatio Potter, in the mid-18th century, was an act of feminine empowerment or or the emergence of an Anglo-Catholic form of "high church" Episcopalianism. Potter's predecessor, Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk, had been cashiered for allegedly fondling a woman, by a court of Bishops in which the "Evan...more
Kevin Phillips takes a very broad view of English and American history, showing how they are intertwined on on the basis of language, religion and region. His premise is that the English Civil War, American Revolution and American Civil War were basically civil wars of the English-speaking peoples, pitting egalitarian low-church Protestantism (with its associate factors of capitalism and trade) against high-church elitism, often aligned with the Crown and aristocracy, hierarchical and privilege-...more
This book tries to tie together the English Revolution with the American Revolution and then again with the American Civil War.
Far too broad in it's scope without a truly precise theory outside of "Every 100 years or so, the typically civil Anglo-Saxon race takes arms up against itself to bring itself closer to that more perfect freedom it has historically strived for" (paraphrasing).
Americans have such little exposure to the most important event in Anglo-Americ...more
Far too broad in it's scope without a truly precise theory outside of "Every 100 years or so, the typically civil Anglo-Saxon race takes arms up against itself to bring itself closer to that more perfect freedom it has historically strived for" (paraphrasing).
Americans have such little exposure to the most important event in Anglo-Americ...more
I got interested because of Heisman's suicide note, which I think borrowed a fair amount from this book. A lot of good history here, although the organization is poor, and Phillips sometimes goes on tangents that should have been cut. His larger thesis seems to me incontrovertible, although his model doesn't really explain why Virginia took New England's side in the Revolutionary war.
Some interesting points drawing English civil war, US revolution, and US civil war together along religious and social lines, but very tedious at points.
Broad in scope, and somewhat disjointed at times...with a bit a positive bias towards the titular Anglo-American triumph. But a very interesting book, especially with regards to the ever evolving demographics of America. Hard to believe that many of the current divisions and differences we see today have definitevly clear roots extending backwards into the 16th Century.
I had heard Mr. Phillips truculent style with grudging admiration on NPR before I ever read this book. It's one of those perceptive, original theses that startle one. If you'd like to see the English Civil War (or whatever they're callingthat multi-national conflict now) tied to he American Revolution and Civil War, read this.
An examination of the parallels between the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War.
Filled with good nuggets of information you would not have guessed out of the corners of history that neither Americans nor the British have tended to focus on.
Worth the read.
Filled with good nuggets of information you would not have guessed out of the corners of history that neither Americans nor the British have tended to focus on.
Worth the read.
This is a very good read and it certainly explains a lot about English religion, society and politics as well as the French & Indian, Revolutionary & American Civil War.
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a very scholarly analysis of the relations of the puritan civil war in england to our revolution to our civil war. not as good as albion's seed, but similar.
I enjoyed this, although it did take me forever to get through due to a busy schedule the last couple months of 2008.
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Kevin Phillips is an American writer and commentator, largely on politics, economics, and history. Formerly a Republican Party strategist, Phillips has become disaffected with his former party over the last two decades, and is now one of its harshest critics. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio, and is a political analyst on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers.
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