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Bunker, Nick.
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Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773.
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.
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Bunker, Nick.
Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773.
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.
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An
empire
on the
edge
:
how
Britain
came
to
fight
America
/ Nick Bunker.
by
Bunker, Nick.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Call #:
973.3 B942e
Subjects
Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773.
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.
ISBN:
9780307594846 (hc.)
030759484X (hc.)
Alternate title:
How
Britain
came
to
fight
America
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
x, 429 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Summary:
"A new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution, showing
how
a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few welcomed but nobody could prevent. British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last three years of mutual embitterment that preceded the outbreak of
America
's war for independence, also shedding light on the roles of such familiar characters as Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Hutchinson. It was a tragedy of errors, in which both sides shared responsibility: the British and the colonists failed to see
how
swiftly they were drifting toward violence until the process had gone beyond the point of no return. By the early 1770s, Great
Britain
had become addicted to financial speculation, led by a political elite increasingly baffled by a changing world. When the East India Company
came
close to collapse, it patched together a rescue plan whose disastrous side effect was the destruction of some tea. With lawyers in London calling the Tea Party treason, the British opted for punitive reprisals without foreseeing the resistance they would arouse, while Americans underestimated
Britain
's determination not to give way. By the summer of 1774, the descent into war had become irreversible"--From publisher description.
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