The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George IIIAn important revisionist history that casts eighteenth century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light An important book . . . . Vaughn has greatly added to our understanding of Britains empire and politics.Journal of Modern HIstory In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded in a fit of absence of mind. He instead argues that the origins of