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02945cam a2200433 a 4500 001 0A23EA8A6BFD11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 080611m20092007nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2008930854 020 $a 0140289844 (British pbk.) 020 $a 9780140289848 (British pbk.) 020 $a 0713994266 (British hardback) 020 $a 9780713994261 (British hardback) 020 $a 0465013325 020 $a 9780465013326 035 $a (OCoLC)230193500 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d SUC $d IXA $d ZCU $d ORX $d AFQ $d MNW $d VUE $d ION $d SILO 043 $a e-gx--- $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a DA16 $b .S53 2009 082 00 $a 941.07 $2 22 100 1 $a Simms, Brendan. 245 1 $a Three victories and a defeat : $b the rise and fall of the first British Empire, 1714-1783 / $c Brendan Simms. 260 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2009. 300 $a xvii, 802 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Originally published: London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2007. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 685-725) and index. 505 0 $a I. Imperial apprenticeship. A part of the main: England in Europe, 1558-1697 -- Marlborough country: Britain and the empire, 1697-1714 -- II. Imperial opportunities. Imperial restoration, 1714-1715 -- Britain's' new European empire, 1716-1717 -- Preventive war in the Mediterranean and the Baltic, 1718-1719 -- III. Imperial challenges. A protestant empire, 1721-1724 -- The return of Charles V, 1725-1726 -- The resurgence of France, 1727-1732 -- Imperial visions. Imperial retreat, 1733-1736 -- The colonial mirage, 1737-1739 -- Imperial isolation, 1740-1742 -- V. Imperial recovery. The empires strike back, 1742-1745 -- The American empire restores the balance in the German empire, 1745-1748 -- Imperial pre-emptions, 1748-1752 -- VI. Imperial triumph. Transferring the seat of empire? 1753-1756 -- The imperial missions of William Pitt, 1757-1759 -- An island once again, 1760-1763 -- VII. Imperial hubris. Imperial retrenchments, 1763-1765 -- Imperial pre-emptions, 1765-1767 -- Empire adrift, 1768-1772 -- VIII. Imperial nemesis. Fighting for Europe in America, 1773-1777 -- Losing America in Europe, 1778-1779 -- The partition of Britain, 1780-1783. 520 $a Follows the British House of Hanover from its rise based on strong relationships with European powers to its fall due to the political damge of the American Revolution. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y 1714-1837. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $y 1714-1837. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $z Germany. 651 0 $a Germany $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain. 941 $a 2 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20101106041132.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20100503124814.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A23EA8A6BFD11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IONInitiate Another SILO Locator Search