I. Identification of Work
After earning his bachelor’s degree in English at Brown University then his master’s degree in American literature at Duke University, Nathaniel Philbrick began his career as an historic non-fiction bestselling author and has since achieved numerous literary success and public recognition with his most famously known novel Mayflower being a finalist for the Putlizer Prize for History. Then in 2013, Philbrick came back with his New York Times Bestseller Bunker Hill, to inform its readers of the underlying history of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
II. Summary of Main Ideas
With his curiosity of the unexplored side of mythic events in U.S. history, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his focus to colonial Boston and button that turned on the American Revolution. In the result of the Boston Tea Party and the …show more content…
For instance, one of the argument developed in the rising actions of the book was that the Boston Tea Party was not merely caused due to the constant importation of Britsh tea. As Philbrick narrates: “To eliminate that surplus [tea], it was decided to offer the tea to American colonies at the drastically reduced price of two shillings per pound--a third less than the orginal price...Since the low-priced East India tea would undersell the smuggled Dutch tea, the merchants stood to lose significant income” (p.8-9), it was revealed that the main cause of the Boston Tea Party was the economic revivalry between the American merchants lead by John Hancock and the British East India Company while the latter is just trying to sell its surplus tea at a considerably low price. Although the example given is minimal, but when this kind of detailing and evidence is applied to the entire book, I have to agree with the author’s ideas because it is the truth backed up with more than 75 pages of notes and
After earning his bachelor’s degree in English at Brown University then his master’s degree in American literature at Duke University, Nathaniel Philbrick began his career as an historic non-fiction bestselling author and has since achieved numerous literary success and public recognition with his most famously known novel Mayflower being a finalist for the Putlizer Prize for History. Then in 2013, Philbrick came back with his New York Times Bestseller Bunker Hill, to inform its readers of the underlying history of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
II. Summary of Main Ideas
With his curiosity of the unexplored side of mythic events in U.S. history, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his focus to colonial Boston and button that turned on the American Revolution. In the result of the Boston Tea Party and the …show more content…
For instance, one of the argument developed in the rising actions of the book was that the Boston Tea Party was not merely caused due to the constant importation of Britsh tea. As Philbrick narrates: “To eliminate that surplus [tea], it was decided to offer the tea to American colonies at the drastically reduced price of two shillings per pound--a third less than the orginal price...Since the low-priced East India tea would undersell the smuggled Dutch tea, the merchants stood to lose significant income” (p.8-9), it was revealed that the main cause of the Boston Tea Party was the economic revivalry between the American merchants lead by John Hancock and the British East India Company while the latter is just trying to sell its surplus tea at a considerably low price. Although the example given is minimal, but when this kind of detailing and evidence is applied to the entire book, I have to agree with the author’s ideas because it is the truth backed up with more than 75 pages of notes and