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

Simms, Brendan

ISBN 10: 0713994266 / ISBN 13: 9780713994261

Published by Allen Lane (Penguin Books Ltd), London, 2007

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TRUE FIRST EDITION FIRST IMPRESSION - OUTSTANDING ALLEN LANE IMPRINT - PRISTINE SOUARE COPY WITH UNCLIPPED DUST WRAPPER : COLLATION: Large Octavo (24cm x 16cm). pp. xvii, 801. Bound in original publisher?s rich red trade cloth boards with bright gilt title lettering to the spine. Richly illustrated with monochrome historical mapping prints and text-embedded diagrammatic plates throughout. Complete with the original graphically printed, unclipped dust jacket. ISBN: 9780713994261.CONDITION & ATTRIBUTES: An exemplary, clean, and perfectly square copy in true Fine condition overall. Binding is exceptionally tight, unblemished, and free of sagging. Internal pages are beautifully crisp, white, and entirely free of any previous owner signatures, library stampings, or annotations. The unclipped dust wrapper remains remarkably bright and vibrant, showing only a minute, faint touch of rubbing to one corner tip. An exceptional collectible copy of a masterful revisionist historical work.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783
• Publisher: Allen Lane (Penguin Books Ltd), London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713994266
• ISBN 13: 9780713994261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Political History
  • History
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Synopsis

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. Whilst Britain was an important European power, few would have expected her global preeminence by 1760, but 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.

About the Author

Brendan Simms is a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Reader in 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, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.