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Cultures in Conflict
The Seven Years' War in North America
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2007
Summary
The Seven Years' War (1754–1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts understood and experienced the war (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in various ways. In many instances the progress of the conflict was charted by cultural differences and the implications participants drew from cultural encounters.
It is these cultural encounters, their meaning in the context of the Seven Years' War, and their impact on the war and its diplomatic settlement that are the subjects of this volume. Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America addresses the broad pattern of events that framed this conflict's causes, the intercultural dynamics of its conduct, and its profound impact on subsequent events—most notably the American Revolution and a protracted Anglo-Indian struggle for continental control.
Warren R. Hofstra has gathered the best of contemporary scholarship on the war and its social and cultural history. The authors examine the viewpoints of British and French imperial authorities, the issues motivating Indian nations in the Ohio Valley, the matter of why and how French colonists fought, the diplomatic and social world of Iroquois Indians, and the responses of British colonists to the conflict. The result of these efforts is a dynamic historical approach in which cultural context provides a rationale for the well-established military and political narrative of the Seven Years' War.
These synthetic and interpretive essays mark out new territory in our understanding of the Seven Years' War as we recognize its 250th anniversary.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-5129-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7610-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
191
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface No access
Chapter 1 Introduction: Old Forts, New Perspectives—Thoughts on the Seven Years' War and Its Significance Fred Anderson, University of Colorado No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 2 British Culture and the Changing Character of the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Empire Paul Mapp, College of William and Mary No access Pages 23 - 60
Chapter 3 Great Power Confrontation or Clash of Cultures?: France's War against Britain and Its Antecedents Jonathan R. Dull, Papers of Benjamin Franklin No access Pages 61 - 78
Chapter 4 War, Diplomacy, and Culture: The Iroquois Experience in the Seven Years' War Timothy J. Shannon, Gettysburg College No access Pages 79 - 104
Chapter 5 Declaring Independence: The Ohio Indians and the Seven Years' War Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah No access Pages 105 - 126
Chapter 6 How the Seven Years' War Turned Americans into (British) Patriots Woody Holton, University of Richmond No access Pages 127 - 144
Chapter 7 The Seven Years' War in Canadian History and Memory Catherine Desbarats, McGill University, and Allan Greer, University of Toronto No access Pages 145 - 178
