{"product_id":"the-fourth-kingdom","title":"The Fourth Kingdom","description":"Charts the founding of the American Empire.   The Fourth Kingdom is the second volume in a series of books, The Personality of American Power, 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57513603400053,"sku":"9798855806618","price":24.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798855806618.jpg?v=1787220382","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-fourth-kingdom","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}