To Lose an Empire: British Strategy and Foreign Policy, 1758-90

by Jeremy Black

Book Overview

Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control of its American colonies. Critiquing the traditional emphasis on the value of alliance during the Seven Years' War, and the consequences of British isolation during the War of American Independence, Jeremy Black shows that this rests on a misleading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350216062
• ISBN13: 9781350216068
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages