| ISBN |
0300209401 (pbk.)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9780300209402 (pbk.)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9780300195248
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
253.04
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| 個人著者標目 |
O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson.
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| 本タイトル |
The men who lost America :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire /
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| 著者名 |
Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.
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| その他のタイトル |
British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
New Haven :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Yale University Press,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
[2013],
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| 数量 |
xiv, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustrations, maps, portraits ;
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| 大きさ |
24 cm
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-448) and index.
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| 内容注記 |
pt. I. The view from London. "The tyrant": George III ; The prime minister: Lord North -- pt. II. Victory and defeat in the north (1776-1778). The peace commissioners?: the Howe brothers ; "The old gamester": John Burgoyne ; "The Achilles of the American war": Lord George Germain -- pt. III. Victory and defeat in the south (1778-1781). "The scapegoat": Sir Henry Clinton ; "Bagging the fox": Charles, Earl Cornwallis -- pt. IV. Victory against France and Spain (1782). "Saint George": Sir George Rodney ; "Jemmy Twitcher": The Earl of Sandwich.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
"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 personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire"--Provided by publisher.
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| 統一タイトル(シリーズ副出標目) |
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| シリーズ名・巻次 |
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history |
| 団体件名 |
Great Britain. -- Army -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Great Britain. -- Army. |
| 一般件名 |
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Participation, British.
15.70 history of Europe. |
| 地名件名 |
United States -- British forces. -- Revolution, 1775-1783
United States -- Campaigns. -- Revolution, 1775-1783 |
| 資料情報1 |
『The men who lost America :
British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire /』（Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history） Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Yale University Press, [2013],
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/253.0/O82/M
資料コード：7114319561）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352049767 |
