Description: Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
Brief description: Eliga H. Gould is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.
Review Quotes:
"At the heart of this compelling study of political culture in Britain during the eighteenth century is the proposition that the British public did not, as traditionalists argued, reject their government's war against the American colonies, but, on the contrary, put significant support behind it. . . . [A] nicely written and articulate study." -- Historian