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Book Review: The Empire Reformed By Owen Stanwood

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Recommended: Analyze the relationship between british north american colonies and the english government a century before the revolutionary war

Syeda Nabi
HIST 2111
Professor Eichhorn
7 February 2017
Book Review about The Empire Reformed by Owen Stanwood
The Empire Reformed by Owen Stanwood tells an important story about British North America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution. It describes how in the era of glorious revolution includes imperial leaders and colonial leaders connected on their political beliefs to save English America from the French and Indians. The message Stanwood tries to convey was the fear and anxiety were essential factors in England successful building of empire in North America and the consequences they went through by reshaping the empire.
In this book, Stanwood looks at how fear can be used in empire building. Stanwood observes that transatlantic fear of Catholicism begins in its result of the fundamental shift in English political culture. This shift takes charge of how political environment dominated by fears of popery not to mention, militant Protestantism as well. The chapters organized into three parts. The first part talks about how the political culture in England and America focus into the rising of James II to the throne but his administration was poor. Part two describes how this diversity of …show more content…

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