An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America
2014
973.311 B942 2014
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Title
An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Description
x, 429 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number
973.311 B942 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)866837198
Note
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-411) and index.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-411) and index.
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.
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