Excerpt from Political Ideas of the American Revolution: Britannic-American Contributions to the Problem of Imperial Organization 1765 to 1775 This work is intended in the first place as a contribution to International Law. In the second place, it is a chapter of Britannic Imperial History, arid in the third place it may be regarded as a fragment of the history of the United States. As I conceive it, the thing which George Washington deplored as the "monster of sovereignty" is the chief stumbling block of international cooperation. Jealous nationality will not surrender its title to a supposed supremacy, and as a consequence, international adjustments are rendered difficult, if not impossible. It is my belief that the British Empire, or, as it is better known today, the Britannic Commonwealth of Nations, presents one of our most completely equipped laboratories for the study of international relations, for there is being worked out the idea of a league of nations without too much idle discussion as to the residence of sovereignty. I have, therefore, selected that period of American history in which the thirteen colonies were struggling to become self-governing dominions, as indicative of the contribution America made to the supreme problem of politics while working within the laboratory of the Britannic Commonwealth. The separation from Great Britain took the colonies out of that laboratory, so there my story stops. Nevertheless, a proper understanding of the fundamental political and legal conceptions upon which the thinkers of this period worked takes us in some instances into material which was not set down until as late as 1790. It seems to me, however, that this fact, and the further fact that I do not concern myself with many of the ideas which the Americans formulated during the Revolution, but after the separation from Great Britain, do not invalidate my title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance against Britain. Led by Bernardo de Galvez, supreme commander of the Spanish forces in North America, their military campaigns against British settlements on the Mississippi River—and later against Mobile and Pensacola—were crucial in preventing Britain from concentrating all its North American military and naval forces on the fight against George Washington's Continental army. In this first comprehensive biography of Galvez (1746@–86), Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia assesses the commander's considerable historical impact and expands our understanding of Spain's contribution to the war. A man of both empire and the Enlightenment, as viceroy of New Spain (1785@–86), Galvez was also pivotal in the design and implementation of Spanish colonial reforms, which included the reorganization of Spain's Northern Frontier that brought peace to the region for the duration of the Spanish presence in North America. Extensively researched through Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives, Quintero Saravia's portrait of Galvez reveals him as central to the histories of the Revolution and late eighteenth-century America and offers a reinterpretation of the international factors involved in the American War for Independence.

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American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.