
This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain’s extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained. Whilst Britain was an important European power, few would have expected her global preeminence by 1760, but as Brendan Simms shows with great flair and originality, Britain had a c...
Hardcover: 800 pages
Publisher: ALLEN LANE (2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0713994266
ISBN-13: 978-0713994261
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.9 x 9.6 inches
Amazon Rank: 3373144
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This book gives some rather complicated backround on the Americam Revolution, and how it involved Britain and the Europe. Not for the casual reader....
to play. It was the joining of the British crown to Hanover that gave Britain two empires: one scattered around the world and another – the more important of the two - firmly locked into Germany. Having created a new empire Britain then spectacularly lost it, this time because of its chaotic failure to maintain its European alliances. This is an epic and often unexpected story, and Simms tells it brilliantly.