An empire on the edge: how Britain came to fight America [1. Vintage books ed] 9780385351645

A new British account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution, showing how a lethal blend of

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English Pages x, 429 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karte ; 24 cm Year 2015;2014

An empire on the edge: how Britain came to fight America [1. Vintage books ed]
9780385351645

From Publishers Weekly The deservedly overshadowed War of 1812 was redeemed by heroics at sea, according to this rousing

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Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting th

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A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Pic

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Clarence Earl Gideon, a semi-literate drifter, is arrested for breaking into a pool room and for petty theft. When he as

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At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of

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Clarence Earl Gideon, a semi-literate drifter, is arrested for breaking into a pool room and for petty theft. When he as

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One ofThe Economist's 2011 Books of the Year ABoston GlobeBest Nonfiction Book of 2011 Well before the 1960s, a se

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This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in

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Screenwriting books did not begin with Syd Field, in 1913 there were four screenwriting how to books published, with at

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