The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

by Patrick Griffin

The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland

Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences of their efforts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300218974
• ISBN13: 9780300218978
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"