The Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Fred Anderson, Author, William L Clements Library, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf $45 (912p) ISBN 978-0-375-40642-3
From 1756 to 1763, the Ohio Valley was the site of a historic contest between the French and the English, both of whom wanted to add this fertile soil to their colonial holdings. In this elegant new account of the Seven Years' War, University of...
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Fred Anderson, Author . Viking $25.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-670-03454-3
The author of the award-winning, scholarly account of the French and Indian War Crucible of War
(2000) offers a scaled-down, popular version of that history in this companion volume to the January 2006 PBS documentary. It is an excellent...
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Fred Anderson, Author, Andrew Cayton, Author . Viking $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-670-03370-6
It can't be any mystery that "war and imperialism have powerfully influenced American development," as this book's authors say. But how powerfully did war and imperial ambition affect the U.S. when set against other factors? One...
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