Three Victories and a Defeat

The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire 1714-1783

Three Victories and a Defeat

Simms, Brendan

Editorial Penguin UK
Fecha de edición julio 2008

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780140289848
832 páginas
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Resumen del libro

This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britains extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Britain was an important European power, but few would have predicted her global pre-eminence by 1760. As Brendan Simms shows with great flair and originality, Britain had a crucial card 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.





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