An Empire On the Edge
Subtitle: how Britain came to fight America
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780307594846
Table of contents: title: Prologue.; title: The finest country in the world; title: The old régime; title: Part one : The empire of speculation.; title: The tiger's mouth; title: "This dark affair" : the Gaspée incident; title: A bankrupt age; title: The unhappiness of Lord North; title: Ignorance and bad policy; title: Part two : The sending of the tea.; title: The East India crisis; title: Whigs, West Indians and Thomas Hutchinson; title: Massachusetts on the eve; title: The Boston Tea Party : prelude; title: The Boston Tea Party : climax; title: Part three : Down the slope.; title: The cabinet in winter; title: "Boston must be destroyed"; title: The revolution begins; title: An election in Arcadia; title: The arming of America; title: The fatal dispatch; title: Epilogue : The noble dead; title: Appendix one : The meaning of treason; title: Appendix two : The value of money in the 1770s; title: Sources and further reading