false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301m/111919.jpg 111919 2 Political commentator Kevin Phillips (author of the 1991 bestseller <I>The Politics of Rich and Poor</I>) takes a break from analyzing the latest election returns with this sweeping history of Anglo-American exceptionalism. How did the political culture of Anglo-America rise "from a small Tudor kingdom to a global community and world hegemony"? asks Phillips. His answer comes in the course of 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" during the American Revolution to "ethnoreligious maps of the modern-day Balkans." This is a hefty book (over 600 pages, not including appendices and footnotes), and while Phillips's preface is a bit self-absorbed, admirers of David Landes's <I>The Wealth and Poverty of Nations</I> and Jared Diamond's <I>Guns, Germs, and Steel</I> will find much to like between its covers. <I>--John J. Miller</I> 107782 1999 The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America total:36|5:8|4:12|3:12|2:3|1:1| 36 131 62 11 111919 0465013708 9780465013708 34 11 3.64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301m/111919.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111919.The_Cousins_Wars_Religion_Politics_and_the_Triumph_of_Anglo_America 3 0 false Mon Nov 17 11:11:06 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 11:14:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 111919 0465013708 9780465013708 34 11 3.64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301m/111919.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111919.The_Cousins_Wars_Religion_Politics_and_the_Triumph_of_Anglo_America 2 0 false Wed Nov 14 15:02:57 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 15:11:48 -0800 2007
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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.

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