"Crucible Of War: The Seven Year's War and The Fate Of The Empire In British North America, 1754-1766" ( Fred Anderson )

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Discusses the author's presentation of the Seven Years War as the most important event of 18th Century North America. Implications of the War. Anderson's examination of the different cultures involved: the French, the British, French & British colonials, & Native Americans. European military practice. How war established the British Empire in North America.

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"Fred Anderson's magnificent book, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, beautifully fulfills the author's intention of focusing on the war as "the most important event to occur in eighteenth-century North America"--a sharp contrast from the usual American historian's view of the war as a little more than a prelude to the Revolution (xv) .In Anderson's view the broader implications of the war for many kinds of people testify to its importance and he accomplishes a breadth of presentation (in what is, none the less, a strictly chronological presentation) by looking at it as a meeting of a variety of cultures: the French, the British, French and British colonials, and Native Americans who saw participation as a means to their own ends as well as those who chose to maintain a distance from the ..."

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