![]() ![]() Sandwiched between the two European empire, the Iroquois Confederacy played one off the other successfully for many years. This war and its legacy is the subject of this superb book, one that offers a complex and inter-layered narrative of the origins, conduct, and consequences of this often-ignored conflict.Īnderson begins by examining the interaction between the British, the French, and the Iroquois in the Ohio Valley. ![]() Yet ironically in doing so, it sowed the seeds for the eventual collapse of Britain’s own empire in the Americas by expanding it beyond a manageable size and creating pressures that ultimately led the thirteen colonies to rebel. Fought in the untamed wilderness which both France and Britain claimed, the struggle brought an end to the French empire in North America. ![]() Though long overshadowed in the traditional historical narrative by the American Revolution, the Seven Years’ War, as Fred Anderson argues, is the most important event in the eighteenth-century North American history. ![]()
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