1724 The British Empire Before the American Revolution Volume XI: The Triumphant Empire: The Rumbling of the Coming Storm, 1766-1770, by Lawrence Henry Gipson (read 20 June 1982) I found this volume very uneven. Some chapters were extremely interesting. Others were very dull. Chapter I tells of efforts to heal the breach after the repeal of the Stamp Act. Chapter II deals with the Quartering Act and New York's reaction to it. Chapter III is entitled "Charles Townshend Moves to the Front" and is a very interesting account of parliamentary events, as was Chapter IV: "The Implementation of the Townshend Acts." Chapter V: "Massachusetts Bay and Resistance to the Townshend Program." Chapter VI: "Other Colonies Follow the Lead of Massachusetts Bay." Chapter VII was a very interesting account: "The Discontented--Wilkes and Liberty." Did you know Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is half-named after John Wilkes? Chapter VIII: "The British Ministry at Sea." Chapter IX tells of the Boston Massacre--what an overblown thing! The troops were acquitted by American juries of any charge. The rest of the book dealt with intercolonial rivalries and problems re the western frontier and class conflicts in the Carolinas, and were very dull. ( )