[PDF] Britain And The Seventy Years War 1744 1815 eBook

Author : Anthony Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1137474432

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Eighteenth-century Britons were frequently anxious about the threat of invasion, military weakness, possible financial collapse and potential revolution. Anthony Page argues that between 1744 and 1815, Britain fought a 'Seventy Years War' with France. This invaluable study: - Argues for a new periodization of eighteenth-century British history, and explains the politics and course of Anglo-French war - Explores Britain's 'fiscal-naval' state and its role in the expansion of empire and industrial revolution - Highlights links between war, Enlightenment and the evolution of modern British culture and politics Synthesizing recent research on political, military, economic, social and cultural history, Page demonstrates how Anglo-French war influenced the revolutionary era and helped to shape the first age of global imperialism.

Author : Daniel A. Baugh
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780582092396

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The Seven Years War was a global contest between the two superpowers of eighteenth century Europe, France and Britain. Winston Churchill called it “the first World War”. Neither side could afford to lose advantage in any part of the world, and the decisive battles of the war ranged from Fort Duquesne in what is now Pittsburgh to Minorca in the Mediterranean, from Bengal to Quèbec. By its end British power in North America and India had been consolidated and the foundations of Empire laid, yet at the time both sides saw it primarily as a struggle for security, power and influence within Europe. In this eagerly awaited study, Daniel Baugh, the world’s leading authority on eighteenth century maritime history looks at the war as it unfolded from the failure of Anglo-French negotiations over the Ohio territories in 1784 through the official declaration of war in 1756 to the treaty of Paris which formally ended hostilities between England and France in 1763. At each stage he examines the processes of decision-making on each side for what they can show us about the capabilities and efficiency of the two national governments and looks at what was involved not just in the military engagements themselves but in the complexities of sustaining campaigns so far from home. With its panoramic scope and use of telling detail this definitive account will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in military history or the history of eighteenth century Europe.

Author : Ian R. Christie
Publisher : London : E. Arnold
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :

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The British experience during the reign of George III was harsh and testing. Yet the glow of the Victiorian age, a time of international peace and growing prosperity, arrising as it seemed out of years of triumphant warefare befor 1815, has tended to obscure this. There was nothing preordainded about the victories of 1814 and 1815, and they came at the end of a half-century as fraught wirth danger and anxiety as any in the nation's history. Young men who, like George III, entered upon their adult years amidst the heady intoxication of success in the Seven Years War, in their early years beheld the empire for which that war had been fought torn assunder, and almost till the las feared the decline of their country into a minor satellite of France.

Author : Neil Ramsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1009100440

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This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

Author : Patrick Griffin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0300271441

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A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history “A fresh and illuminating framework for understanding our past and imagining our future. Powerfully argued and engagingly written, Patrick Griffin’s timely account of revolutionary regime change and reaction shows how a world of empires became our world of nation-states.”—Peter S. Onuf, coauthor of Most Blessed of the Patriarchs “When we speak of an age of revolution, what do we mean? In this synoptic, compelling book, Patrick Griffin asks the difficult questions and invites readers to reconsider the answers.”—Eliga Gould, author of Among the Powers of the Earth The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state, and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period (c. 1750–1850). Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in how people in an interconnected world struggled through violence, liberation, and war to reimagine themselves and sovereignty. Tying together the revolutions, crises, and conflicts that undid British North America, transformed France, created Haiti, overturned Latin America, challenged Britain and Europe, vexed Ireland, and marginalized West Africa, Griffin tells a transnational tale of how empires became nations and how our world came into being.