{"product_id":"cornwallis-9780300196801","title":"Cornwallis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years—the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] well researched [biography].”—Gerard DeGroot, \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Richard Middleton, in this defensive biography of Cornwallis, the first for almost half a century, proves himself an able historian who has mastered the relevant sources. . . . [Cornwallis’s] efforts are recorded diligently by Middleton.”—Paul Lay, \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Never less than fair and consistently entertaining.”—Ferdinand Mount, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Middleton has written both a biography and an important work of history. . . . Middleton makes perceptive comments on Cornwallis’s command in America [and] puts this in the context of a career of imperial service that includes posts of responsibility in Britain, Germany, India and Ireland.”—Jeremy Black,\u003ci\u003e Catholic Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Richard Middleton vividly narrates the surprising and revealing life of Britain’s leading general during the Age of Revolutions. In lucid prose and telling detail, Cornwallis reappears as a sensible, progressive, and effective leader in crises that both shook and rebuilt the British Empire.”—Alan Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A comprehensive, thoughtful, and nuanced biography of a leading British soldier and administrator whose career spanned three continents during a tumultuous half century of war and revolution. In this major reassessment, the general best known for sustaining a defeat that guaranteed American independence emerges as an unusually capable, humane, and—by the standards of his own age—enlightened servant of empire.”—Stephen Brumwell, author of \u003ci\u003eGeorge Washington: Gentleman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Scholarly yet accessible to general readers, Richard Middleton’s new biography of Cornwallis captures his pivotal role in events in America, India and Ireland. Based on a heroic trawl through a great mass of primary sources, notably Cornwallis’s voluminous papers, this book will surely endure as the standard life of this eighteenth-century imperial soldier.”—Stephen Conway, author of \u003ci\u003eHistory of the British Army, 1714–1783\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401526976855,"sku":"9780300196801","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300196801.jpg?v=1730477702","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cornwallis-9780300196801","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}