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An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America
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Title
An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America / Nick Bunker.
ISBN
9780307594846 (hbk.)
030759484X (hbk.)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Physical Description
x, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary
A British-perspective chronicle of the Boston Tea Party and other events that led up to the American Revolution traces three years of volatile politics, personalities and economics on both sides of the conflict.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 14, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The finest country in the world
The old régime
An empire of speculation
The tiger's mouth
"This dark affair": the Gaspée incident
A bankrupt age
The unhappiness of Lord North
Ignorance and bad policy
The sending of the tea
The East India crisis
Whigs, West Indians and Thomas Hutchinson
Massachusetts on the eve
The Boston Tea Party: prelude
The Boston Tea Party: climax
Down the slope
The cabinet in winter
"Boston must be destroyed"
The revolution begins
An election in Arcadia
The arming of America
The fatal despatch.
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