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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New York :
Basic Books,
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Table of 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.
