Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire

Simms, Brendan

ISBN 10: 0465013325 / ISBN 13: 9780465013326

Editore: BASIC BOOKS, 2008

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Klappentext Here is revisionist history at its bracing best--conceived on an epic scale and achieving originality and analytical rigor without foregoing the pleasures of narrative. --Christopher ClarkThree Victorie.

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• Titolo: Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
• Editore: BASIC BOOKS
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0465013325
• ISBN 13: 9780465013326
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the continental balance of power in check while dramatically expanding her own empire. These alliances sustained the nation through the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War. But in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by alienating her European allies.

An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American history, Three Victories and a Defeat is a masterwork by a rising star of the historical profession.

Informazioni sugli autori

Brendan Simms is Reader in International Relations at the Center for International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Struggle for Mastery in Germany and Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. He lives in Cambridge, England.

Brendan Simms is a professor in the History of International Relations and fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He is the author of eight previous books, including The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo and Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present, shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. He lives in Cambridge, UK.