A review by davidsteinsaltz
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker

3.0

Bunker thinks the effort to hold on to the British colonies in North America was pure folly, doomed from the start. And it's all somehow about the price of tea. There's lots of interesting information here, but the theoretical framework isn't very convincing. Why were Canada and the Caribbean different? Why were so many Americans still unsure about the revolution, even a long way into it, and why did so many remain loyal? He doesn't really ask these questions.