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Years That Changed History: 1776

Summary

Investigate how Britons viewed the crisis with the American colonies, through the thought of figures such as radical publisher John Wilkes, opposition leader Edmund Burke, and Anglican pundit John Wesley. Then dig into Edward Gibbon’s iconic Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and assess Gibbon’s elaborately argued eulogy to empire, and his support for harsh measures against the colonists.

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