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An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America /

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. Drawing on careful study of primary sources from Britain and the United States, this new...

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Main Author: Bunker, Nick.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
1600-1783
Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
War > Causes.
Diplomatic relations.
Boston Tea Party
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Causes.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States.
Great Britain.
United States.
Massachusetts > Boston.
History.
Online Access:Additional Information at Google Books
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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