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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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