A review by tsharris
An Empire On The Edge: How Britain Came To Fight America by Nick Bunker

5.0

Bunker's history really filled in some important gaps for me. Just an exceptional account of how Britain blundered into a war it wasn't prepared to fight and perhaps more than that, an account of the rulers of the British empire 1770-1775 and the world they inhabited. Most illuminating for me was the description of the political economy of the East India Company and the financial crisis connected with its tea imports.