An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker

An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker

Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History

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.

A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the edges, observed Benjamin Franklin, shortly before the American Revolution. In An Empire on the Edge, British author Nick Bunker delivers a powerful and propulsive narrative of the road to war. At the heart of the book lies the Boston Tea Party, when the British stumbled into an unforeseen crisis that exposed deep flaws in an imperial system sprawling from the Mississippi to Bengal. Shedding new light on the Tea Party's origins and on 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 in the irreversible descent into revolution.

NICK BUNKER is the author of Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World and An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, the latter of which won the 2015 George Washington Prize. In the same year, An Empire on the Edge was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. A former investment banker and reporter for the Financial Times, he now lives with his wife in Lincolnshire, England.

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ISBN 13	9780307594846
ISBN 10	030759484X
Title	An Empire on the Edge
Author	Nick Bunker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
Year published	2014-09-16
Number of pages	448
Prizes	Winner of George Washington Book Prize (History) 2015, Commended for Pulitzer Prize (History) 2015
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