An Empire on the Edge

by Nick Bunker
Category: "World History - Political"
Pages:375
Year of Publication:2014
Date Added:08/11/2015
Date Read:12/06/2018
Notes:Subtitle: How Britain Came to Fight America

An account of the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party and then the outbreak of fighting, told mainly from the point of view of British politics. In short, the Americans insisted on the rights granted them in their colonial charters. The British insisted that Parliament was supreme. Neither side would back down. Neither side entirely understood the other side's point of view. To complicate things Britain's power laid securely in the hands of the landed few who could force their opinions of everyone else. In America, the poor thought themselves the equals of the rich and refused to be controlled.
My Rating: 8

Reviews for An Empire on the Edge

Review - An Empire on the Edge

Very well written. Kept my interest throughout and gave me a much better understanding of the British point of view—which was based on a form of government by the few that couldn't survive long. It became funny, and then irritating how the author ended every other paragraph with some form of "but the time for resolving the issues was past."

Reviewed by Roger on 2018-12-06 17:41:36

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