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Crucible of war : the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766 /
"With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean - and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role-permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
©2000.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Summary: |
"With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean - and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role-permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of North America." "Anderson reveals the clash of inherited perceptions the war created when it gave thousands of American colonists their first experience of real Englishmen and introduced them to the British cultural and class system. The war taught George Washington and other provincials profound emotional lessons, as well as giving them practical instruction in how to be soldiers." "Depicting the subsequent British efforts to reform the empire and American resistance - the riots of the Stamp Act crisis and the nearly simultaneous pan-Indian insurrection called Pontiac's Rebellion - as postwar developments rather than as an anticipation of the national independence that no one knew lay ahead (or even desired), Anderson re-creates the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold while they tried to preserve imperial relationships."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: |
xxvii, 862 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Awards: |
Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 2001. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0375406425 9780375406423 0375706364 9780375706363 |