Revolution Against Empire: Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence

by Justin du Rivage

A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation

Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage traces this decades-long debate, which pitted neighbors and countrymen against one another, from the War of Austrian Succession...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300214243
• ISBN13: 9780300214246
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"