An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
A History, American History, North American Hi... book. I love reading popular history, and I looked forward the opportunity to hear the "other" perspective on the American...
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 of mutual embitterment that preceded the outbreak of America’s...
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- Pages: 448 pages
- ISBN: 9780307594846 / 0
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I love reading popular history, and I looked forward the opportunity to hear the "other" perspective on the American Revolutionary War, especially since I've always felt that most of what I've read on it has been unbalanced. I loved the beginning of the book with the background given, the discussion of the Gaspee Affair, etc.However,... Although An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker is a book about the lead up to the Revolutionary War, I feel like the skeleton of political decision-making could easily have been transported into the United States from the 2000s to present. Both sides of the conflict that would lead to the Revolutionary War miscalculated politicallyThe... Similar to Stephanie McCurry's Confederate Reckoning and Daniel Richter's Facing East from Indian Country, Nick Bunker provides a much-needed history of the events leading up to the American Revolution from the British perspective. He shows that the American narrative of events ignores the larger forces at play in one of the most important...
