The cousins' wars: religion, politics, and the triumph of Anglo-America

pt. 1. Beginnings of Anglo-America and the setting of the first cousins' war

ch. 1. Protestant background of Anglo-American expansion and the cousins' wars

pt. 2. Early cousins' wars

ch. 2. Anglo-Amnerica's first civil wars: the British setting, 1630-1763

ch. 3. America, 1763-1775: the inheritance of revolutionary conflict

ch. 4. British empire and civil war in the western hemisphere, 1775-1783

ch. 5. Making of a revolution: patriots, loyalists, and neutrals

ch. 6. Support for the American revolution within the British Isles

ch. 7. Trauma and triumph: Saratoga and the revitalization of the British empire

pt. 3. Final cousins' war

ch. 8. Sectionalism, slavery, and religion: the continuity of the second and third cousins' wars

ch. 9. Final cousins' fight: causes and origins of the American civil war

ch. 10. U.S. civil war: loyalties, alignments, and partisanships, 1861-1865

ch. 11. U.S. civil war and the framework of Anglo-America

pt. 4. Triumph of Anglo-America: war, population, and English language hegemony

ch. 12. Cousins' wars and the shaping of Anglo-American politics

ch. 13. Demographic imperialism: the second architecture of Anglo-American hegemony

ch. 14. English language: words as weaponry?