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

by Nick Bunker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030774177X
• ISBN13: 9780307741776
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"