{"product_id":"the-fourth-kingdom-giselle-frances-donnelly-9798855806618","title":"The Fourth Kingdom: The Personality of American Power","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giselle Frances Donnelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855806618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Giselle Frances Donnelly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743280640255,"sku":"9798855806618","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fourth-kingdom-giselle-frances-donnelly-9798855806618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}