The Fourth Kingdom

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The Personality of American Power

Giselle Frances Donnelly (American Enterprise Institute)

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English

State University of New York Press
01 May 2026

European history; History of the Americas; Military history; Diplomacy

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.

By: Giselle Frances Donnelly (American Enterprise Institute)
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 572g
ISBN: 9798855806601
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 01 May 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1. Rex Pacificus 2. The Conquest of Tsennecommacah 3. Stuart Implosion 4. Empires for the Godly 5. Restoration and New York 6. Carolina and the Restoration Crisis 7. Hues & Cries 8. The Empire Strikes Back

Giselle Frances Donnelly is Emerita Fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. She is author of Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power, Volume One, also published by SUNY Press.

Reviews for The Fourth Kingdom: The Personality of American Power

""A lively, exciting, and sophisticated work that sheds new light on the political relationship between Stuart Britain and its emerging colonies. Donnelly highlights the impact of English domestic politics over the unsteady course of plantation and colonization and shows how conflicts outside Europe came to inform the upheavals of the domestic realm."" — Gabriel Glickman, University of Cambridge