{"product_id":"fourth-kingdom","title":"Fourth Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharts the founding of the American Empire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume in a series of books, \u003ci\u003eThe Personality of American Power\u003c\/i\u003e, tracing the distinctive continuities in the American way of war and strategy-making. A handful of themes emerge: securing the continuity and legitimacy of the Anglo-American regime; grounding the use of state power in political principles and ideology; calculating security interests in a fully global geopolitical context; seeing the path to great-power status as leading to westward, transatlantic expansion; differing strategic views between the imperial frontier and the metropolis; and an ongoing contest between advocates of a \"blue-water,\" maritime, \"off-shore balancing\" approach to both colonial and continental affairs and promoters of direct engagement to achieve a favorable great-power balance. Seeing the North American colonies as a developing \"Fourth Kingdom\" adds a new dimension to the dominant \"three-kingdoms\" historiography of the tumultuous Stuart and Cromwellian years. Between the founding of the Jamestown colony and the carving-out of \"Penn's Woods\" seven decades later, English settlers came to control the critical seaports of North America, all but excluding other European powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260686606680,"sku":"9798855806601","price":114.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9798855806601.jpg?v=1780452924","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fourth-kingdom","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}