Lord Churchill's Coup : The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered

by Webb, Stephen Saunders

• ISBN13: 9780815605584
• ISBN10: 0815605587
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

In Lord Churchill's Coup, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrated that the Anglo-American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated by a crusading religion, Webb now argues that both England and its American social experiments were the underdeveloped elements of an empire emerging on both sides of the Atlantic and that the pivotal moment of that empire, the so-called "Glorious Revolution", was in fact a military coup driven by religious fears.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(4)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	3	(10)
BOOK I: A SOLDIER'S SCHOOLS	13	(64)
Chapter One: The "Handsome Englishman": 1667-1679	13	(24)
Chapter Two: In James Stuart's Service: 1675-1683	37	(40)
BOOK II: LORD CHURCHILL'S INGRATITUDE	77	(94)
Chapter Three: Rebellion and Empire: 1683-1687	77	(47)
Chapter Four: Lord Churchill's Coup: 1686-1688	124	(47)
BOOK III: ARMY AND REVOLUTION	171	(95)
Chapter Five: The Coup in the Colonies: 1689-1690	171	(55)
Chapter Six: A Decade of Dissent: 1689-1698	226	(40)
Part One: From Walcourt to Kinsale	226	(19)
Part Two: The Seven Lean Years	245	(21)
Epilogue	266	(5)
Appendix: Inglorious Revolution: The Channel Fleet in 1688	271	(16)
Note on Dates	287	(2)
Note on Documentary Citations	289	(2)
Notes	291	(92)
Index	383
Illustrations follow pages 48, 112, and 240.