Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations. Maps. 802 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

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T�tulo

Three Victories and a Defeat : The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783

Editor

Allen Lane, London

Fecha de publicaci�n

2007

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0713994266

ISBN 13

9780713994261

Encuadernaci�n

Hardback

Ilustrador

Illustrated

Edici�n

1st Edition.

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This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain’s 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. This is an epic and often unexpected story, and Simms tells it brilliantly.

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Brendan Simms is a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge and Reader in the History of International Relations at the Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge and the author of The Struggle for Mastery in Germany and Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia.

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