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

by Nick Bunker

Book Overview

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. In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last three years ofmutual embitterment that precededthe outbreak of America s war for independencein...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030759484X
• ISBN13: 9780307594846
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"