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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Bunker, Nick.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bunker, Nick.       by title:      An empire on the edg...         MARC Display

An empire on the edge [electronic resource] : how Britain came to fight America / Nick Bunker. by Bunker, Nick. New York : Knopf, 2014. 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. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=662FAD30-92CA-470B-8391-C57A0E2CC980 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{662FAD30-92CA-470B-8391-C57A0E2CC980}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780385351645 (electronic bk.) 038535164X (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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