Three victories and a defeat: the rise and fall of the first British Empire, 1714-1783

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.

  • OCLC #: 230193500
  • ISBN #:
    • 9780465013326
    • 0465013325
    • 9780713994261
    • 0713994266
    • 9780140289848
    • 0140289844
  • Call #: DA16.S53 2009
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2009.
  • Physical Description: xvii, 802 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • General Notes:
    • Originally published: London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2007.
  • Contents:
    • 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.
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