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In this engaging narrative of the Seven Years' War, Fred Anderson vividly brings to life the pivotal period of the mid-eighteenth century, during which Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean and permanently changed the political and cultural landscape of North America. Anderson skillfully 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 story of the war's aftermath reveals the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold, while they tried to preserve imperial relationships. Anderson's re-creation of a chapter of history that was shaped by individual choices and actions as well as by social, economic, and political forces.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: History/Military History
Authors: Fred Anderson
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