An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Bunker, Nick

An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryWritten from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of...
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Bunker, Nick

An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

$246.89

An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

$246.89
Author: Nick Bunker
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History

Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent.

"A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the edges," observed Benjamin Franklin, shortly before the American Revolution. In An Empire on the Edge, British author Nick Bunker delivers a powerful and propulsive narrative of the road to war. At the heart of the book lies the Boston Tea Party, when the British stumbled into an unforeseen crisis that exposed deep flaws in an imperial system sprawling from the Mississippi to Bengal. Shedding new light on the Tea Party's origins and on the roles of such familiar characters as Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Hutchinson, and the British ministers Lord North and Lord Dartmouth, Bunker depicts the last three years of deepening anger on both sides of the Atlantic, culminating in the irreversible descent into revolution.

Author: Nick Bunker
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/04/2015
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780307741776

About the Author

Nick Bunker is the author of Making Haste from Babylon, a history of the Mayflower Pilgrims, described by The Washington Post as "a remarkable success." Educated at King's College, Cambridge, and Columbia University, he was a journalist for the Liverpool Echo and the Financial Times, and then an investment banker, chiefly with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. During his careers in journalism and finance, he traveled widely in China, India, the former Soviet bloc, and the United States. He now lives in Lincolnshire, England.


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