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The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire /

"The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Colección:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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