An Empire on the Edge
by Nick Bunker
"How Britain Came to Fight America"
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An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker
Details
War:
American Revolutionary War
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
North America
Page Count:
449
Published Date:
2014
ISBN13:
9780307594846
Summary
An Empire on the Edge examines the origins of the American Revolution from Britain's perspective. Nick Bunker explores how economic pressures, political miscalculations, and the Tea Act of 1773 led to the Boston Tea Party and subsequent conflict. The book details Britain's financial struggles after the Seven Years' War, the rigid thinking of British officials, and their fatal underestimation of colonial resistance. Bunker argues the revolution was neither inevitable nor simply about taxation, but resulted from a series of avoidable blunders by the British government that transformed loyal subjects into revolutionaries.
