Cultures in Conflict The Seven Years' War in North America

by Hofstra, Warren R.; Anderson, Fred; Desbarats, Catherine; Dull, Jonathan R.; Greer, Allan; Hinderaker, Eric; Holton, Woody; Mapp, Paul; Shannon, Timothy J.

• ISBN13: 9780742551299
• ISBN10: 0742551296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-10
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

iCultures in Conflict The Seven Years' War in North Americai 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 Hofstra has gathered the best of contemporary scholarship on the war (1754-1763) 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Old Forts, New Perspectives-Thoughts on the Seven Years' War and Its Significance	p. 1
British Culture and the Changing Character of the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Empire	p. 23
Great Power Confrontation or Clash of Cultures?: France's War against Britain and Its Antecedents	p. 23
Great Power Confrontation or Clash of Cultures?: France's War against Britain and Its Antecedents	p. 61
War, Diplomacy, and Culture: The Iroquois Experience in the Seven Years' War	p. 79
Declaring Independence: The Ohio Indians and the Seven Years' War	p. 105
How the Seven Years' War Turned Americans into (British) Patriots	p. 127
The Seven Years' War in Canadian History and Memory	p. 145
Index	p. 179
About the Contributors	p. 189
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