In Fred Anderson's vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War takes on a new and profound significance. Far from being a mere backdrop to the American Revolution, the Seven Years' War eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a balancing role, and hardened the attitudes of both the colonists and the British -- forgoing the tensions that would lead to the disintegration of the British empire in North America.
With panoramic sweep, Anerson reveals how a skirmish involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jomonville initiated a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration. The narrative weaves together the motives of all the participants, not the least of whom are the American colonists--men who had assumed they were partners in the empire, but who now encountered British officers who treated them as subordinates. Brilliantly illuminating the clash of cultures at the heart of the Seven Years' War, Anderson demonstrates how the forces unleashed would irrevocably change the politics of empire.
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