Title:
An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America / Nick Bunker.
ISBN:
9780307594846
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Physical Description:
x, 429 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Contents:
Prologue. The finest country in the world ; The old régime -- Pt. 1: The 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 -- Pt. 2: 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 -- Pt. 3: Down the slope. The cabinet in winter ; "Boston must be destroyed" ; The revolution begins ; An election in Arcadia ; The arming of America ; The fatal dispatch -- Epilogue: The noble dead.
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.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn866837198
Availability:
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