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.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Three victories and a defeat : |b the rise and fall of the first British Empire, 1714-1783 / |c Brendan Simms. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Basic Books, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xvii, 802 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published: London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2007. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 685-725) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Foreign relations |z Germany. | |
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