Sublime

cold-blooded need for control.

In both English and Spanish America the price of imperial expansion had been de facto colonial autonomy.37 When Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy Virginia planter, led a rebellion against the governor in 1676 (accusing him of being soft on the Pamunkey people) and burned down the colony’s capital at Jamestown, there was little or nothing that London could

Far from imagining a common supremacy over the rest of Eurasia, European statecraft was obsessed with intramural conflicts. Symptomatically, the wealth of the New World was used to finance the dynastic ambitions of the Old.

The Haganah commanders and the leaders of the Jewish Agency decided that British destroyers should be damaged to prevent similar interceptions in the future. Sharon was asked to prepare his “Sharks.” “Sharks” were loaded onto a fishing boat and an attack was planned for the following night in