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

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Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History

Written from a strikingly fresh standpoint, 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 no person could prevent.  

“A super Empire, like A super Cake, is most easily diminished On the edges,” observed Benjamin Franklin, in a while before the American Revolution. In An Empire at the Edge, British creator Nick Bunker delivers a powerful and propulsive narrative of the street to war. On the heart of the book lies the Boston Tea Party, when the British stumbled into an unforeseen crisis that revealed deep flaws in an imperial system sprawling from the Mississippi to Bengal. Shedding new light at the Tea Party’s origins and at the roles of such familiar characters as Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Hutchinson, and the British ministers Lord North and Lord Dartmouth, Bunker depicts the last three years of deepening anger on both sides of the Atlantic, culminating within the irreversible descent into revolution.

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