The War of Jenkins Ear, Robert Gaudi
The War of Jenkins Ear, Robert Gaudi
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The War of Jenkins' Ear
The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742

Author: Robert Gaudi

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 12 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/17/2022

Synopsis

In the early eighteenth century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession, culminating in the War of Jenkins' Ear.

This war would lay the ground work for the French and Indian War and, eventually, the War of the American Revolution. The War of Jenkins' Ear was a world war in the truest sense, engaging the major European powers on battlefields ranging from Europe to the Americas to the Asian subcontinent.

Yet the conflict that would eventually become known as the War of Jenkins' Ear is barely known to us today. Yet it would cost fifty-thousand lives, millions in treasure, and over six hundred ships.

Even though it happened decades before American independence, The War of Jenkins' Ear reveals that this was truly an American war; a hard-fought, costly struggle that determined the fate of the Americas, and in which, for the first time, American armies participated.

In this definitive work of history, The War of Jenkins’ Ear explores the war that established the future of two entire continents.

About Robert Gaudi

Robert Gaudi is a writer, historian, and journalist. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Washington Examiner, Harper's, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and Tri-Quarterly, among other publications. He has variously worked for the National Endowment for the Arts, sold tickets at a movie theater, tended bar and managed a classic car restoration shop. He graduated from the Univeristy of Virginia in Charlottesville and attended the University of Southern California's Graduate Film School and The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. He lives with his children in Washington DC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shrike58

Initially, I was getting a lot of enjoyment out of Gaudi's almost satirical treatment of one the interminable Hispano-English colonial conflicts, but, after a certain point, the wise-guy tone began to annoy me. This was probably about the moment when the phrase "collaborationist squaw" was used. Sti......more

Goodreads review by Cropredy

Inspired by reading The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, an incident that took place during the War of Jenkin's Ear, I sought out a complete history of that conflict. Fortunately for me, Robert Gaudi wrote an extremely readable account in 2021 so I wasn't forced to read more turgid acc......more

Goodreads review by Nathan

The War Of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten Struggle For North And South America 1739-1742, by Robert Gaudi By and large, the War of Jenkins' Ear, or what is alternatively and less colorfully known as the Anglo-Spanish War of 1739-1742, has been largely forgotten everywhere, especially because it was a wa......more

Goodreads review by Tom

Having read The Wager, I was motivated to learn more about The War of Jenkins' Ear, called by the Spanish Guerra del Asiento, lit. 'War of the Agreement'. Coming a generation before the American Revolution, this conflict lasted from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and Spain. The majority of the fightin......more

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