By J. S. Bromley
ISBN-10: 0521075246
ISBN-13: 9780521075244
The increase of significant Britain and Russia is the point of interest of this actual quantity of the hot Cambridge glossy background.
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The larger strategical problem of North America was best understood, and of course most urgently felt, by Americans (ch. xv). Frontenac, who must surely count as one, and the Le Moyne brothers, who founded Louisiana, recognized in the expulsion of the English from New York and Carolina, respectively, the only guarantee of French survival on the continent. Nor did clear heads in Charleston, whose Indian trade depended on controlling the play of intertribal relations south-west of the Appala12 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 INTRODUCTION chians, welcome a competitor on the lower Mississippi.
This permanent British presence in southern Europe was one of the most striking innovations of the time, plain for all to see, like the Habsburg presence in the Balkans and the tsar's in the Baltic. Without any one of these the diplomacy and war-making of the eighteenth century would have taken a different course, although in neither was Britain destined to take consistent advantage of her new position as a Mediterranean power— partly no doubt because sea power alone did not confer a continental preponderance (ch.
The democratic susceptibilities of the janissaries and their penetration of civilian life alone guaranteed a chronic restlessness, and this was fed by a run of shameful reverses and the Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 INTRODUCTION enormous social cost of long campaigns, reflected in deserted homes and soaring prices. An observant traveller could already prophesy in 1701 some strange revolution in this great empire: a generation later, the idea of its decay was a commonplace in the West (ch.
The New Cambridge Modern History: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25 by J. S. Bromley
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