03790cam a2200505 4500 761532210 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 090713s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385351645 electronic bk. 038535164X electronic bk. B00J6YBO1U Amazon EB00268935 Recorded Books 662fad30-92ca-470b-8391-c57a0e2cc980 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1646690 OverDrive (Product ID) 206910 206910 206910 (OCoLC)883264998 RECBK eng RECBK OCLCO IDEBK N$T TEFOD MMI TOH TXN TxAuBib Bunker, Nick. An empire on the edge [Libby] : how britain came to fight america / Nick Bunker. New York : Knopf, 2014. 1 online resource. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 12MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. 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. The story of the American Revolution told from the unique perspective of British Parliament and the streets of London, rather than that of the Colonies. Here, Nick Bunker explores and illuminates the dramatic chain of events that led to the outbreak of the war-revealing a tale of muddle, mistakes, and misunderstandings by men in London that led to the Boston tea party and then to the decision to send redcoats into action against the minutemen. Charting the three years prior to the war during which the British regime in America was already collapsing, Bunker shows how a lethal combination of politics and personalities led to a war that should never have been fought. Revisiting the tea party from the point of view of British economics and drawing upon new and unpublished sources from Britain and the U.S., he argues that thanks to the colonialists' misunderstandings about the strength of British power, and London's inability to take American cries for freedom seriously, both were pushed beyond the point of compromise. The outcome' A war that few welcomed but all were powerless to stop. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775.) History. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General. Colonial Period (1600-1775.) Revolutionary Period (1775-1800.) Great Britain. Electronic books. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=662FAD30-92CA-470B-8391-C57A0E2CC980 http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{662FAD30-92CA-470B-8391-C57A0E2CC980}Img100.jpg Image https://samples.overdrive.com/empire-on-the?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/empire-on-the?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/empire-on-the?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8