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01807aam a22002893i 4500 001 87EAFE3A68CD11E5AEECD489DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151002011810 008 141112s2015 xx 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9780307741776 020 $a 030774177X 035 $a (OCoLC)895117185 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d GGN $d BUP $d SILO 100 1 $a Bunker, Nick. 245 13 $a An empire on the edge : $b how Britain came to fight America / $c Nick Bunker. 260 $a New York : $b Vintage, $c 2015. 300 $a x, 429 pages : $b map ; $c 20 cm 505 0 $a Prologue. The finest country in the world -- The old regime -- The empire of speculation. The tiger's mouth -- "This dark affair" : the Gaspee incident -- A bankrupt age -- The unhappiness of Lord North -- Ignorance and bad policy -- The sending of the tea. The East India crisis -- Whigs, West Indians, and Thomas Hutchinson -- Massachusetts on the eve -- The Boston Tea Party : prelude -- The Boston Tea Party : climax -- Down the slope. The cabinet in winter -- "Boston must be destroyed" -- The Revolution begins -- An election in Arcadia -- The arming of America -- The fatal dispatch -- Epilogue : the noble dead -- Appendix One : the meaning of treason -- Appendix Two : the value of money in the 1770s -- Sources and further reading. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Revolution, 1775-1783. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $z United States. 650 0 $a Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773. 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20151002014056.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=87EAFE3A68CD11E5AEECD489DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search