The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America.

Church History | March 1, 2000| | Copyright

The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. By Kevin Phillips. New York: Basic Books, 1999. xxviii + 707 pp. $32.50 cloth.

Despite his subtitle, Kevin Phillips really means to tell readers that long-standing developments in demographics, and not just politics and religion, determined the triumph of an Anglophone, Protestant imperium in the Atlantic World. The roots of that triumph lay in the confessional struggles of the sixteenth century, clashes that played out their implications for what became Great Britain in the English revolutions ...

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