{"title":"Nick Bunker","description":"Nick Bunker is the author of Making Haste from Babylon, a history of the Mayflower Pilgrims, described by The Washington Post as \"a remarkable success.\" Educated at King's College, Cambridge, and Columbia University, he was a journalist for the Liverpool Echo and the Financial Times, and then an investment banker, chiefly with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. During his careers in journalism and finance, he traveled widely in China, India, the former Soviet bloc, and the United States. He now lives in Lincolnshire, England.","products":[{"product_id":"an-empire-on-the-edge-how-britain-came-to-fight-america-paperback","title":"An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the edges,\" observed Benjamin Franklin, shortly before the American Revolution. In \u003ci\u003eAn Empire on the Edge, \u003c\/i\u003eBritish author Nick Bunker delivers a powerful and propulsive narrative of the road to war. At the heart of the book lies the Boston Tea Party, when the British stumbled into an unforeseen crisis that exposed deep flaws in an imperial system sprawling from the Mississippi to Bengal. Shedding new light on the Tea Party's origins and on the roles of such familiar characters as Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Hutchinson, and the British ministers Lord North and Lord Dartmouth, Bunker depicts the last three years of deepening anger on both sides of the Atlantic, culminating in the irreversible descent into revolution.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365894258911,"sku":"9780307741776","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/nETgNyltWW9780307741776.webp?v=1789073629"},{"product_id":"making-haste-from-babylon-the-mayflower-pilgrims-and-their-world-a-new-history-paperback","title":"Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divine retribution. Against this background, and amid deep economic depression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built a thriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn, and cattle. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts, New England, and a new nation. Using a wealth of new evidence from landscape, archaeology, and hundreds of overlooked or neglected documents, Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly original account of the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e project and the first decade of the Plymouth Colony. From mercantile London and the rural England of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I to the mountains and rivers of Maine, he weaves a rich narrative that combines religion, politics, money, science, and the sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. \u003ci\u003eMaking Haste from Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368261714143,"sku":"9780307386267","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bB_LIpVUeu9780307386267.webp?v=1789125134"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nick-bunker.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}