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    An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America / Nick Bunker.
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    New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
    ISBN: 
    9780307594846 (hc.)
    030759484X (hc.)
    Description: 
    x, 429 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
    Edition: 
    First edition.
    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.
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