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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Simms, Brendan. Three victories and a defeat. New York : Basic Books, [2008], ©2007 (DLC) 2008930854 (OCoLC)276917388 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brendan Simms |
ISBN: | 9780786727223 0786727225 |
OCLC Number: | 301958560 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, [12], 801 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Note on Dating and Quotations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. IMPERIAL APPRENTICESHIP; 1. A Part of the Main: England in Europe, 1558-1697; 2. Marlborough Country: Britain and the Empire, 1697-1714; II IMPERIAL OPPORTUNITIES; 3. Imperial Restoration, 1714-1715; 4. Britain's New European Empire, 1716-1717; 5. Preventive War in the Mediterranean and the Baltic, 1718-1719; III IMPERIAL CHALLENGES; 6. A Protestant Empire, 1721-1724; 7. The Return of Charles V, 1725-1726; 8. The Resurgence of France, 1727-1732; IV. IMPERIAL VISIONS. |
Responsibility: | Brendan Simms. |
Abstract:
An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American history, Three Victories and a Defeat is a masterwork by a rising star of the historical profession
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