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.
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