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An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America
- Title
- An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America / Nick Bunker.
- Author
- Bunker, Nick.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IGA 14-7870 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- x, 429 pages : illustrations; 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.
- Subjects
- 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.
- Call Number
- IGA 14-7870
- ISBN
- 9780307594846
- 030759484X
- LCCN
- 2014001032
- OCLC
- 866837198
- Author
- Bunker, Nick.
- Title
- An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America / Nick Bunker.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- IGA 14-7870