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Crucible of War [Buy it!] | Anderson Fred | USD 28.20 (Wed May 29 01:59:21 2024) | Biblio | Infinity Books Japan | US: Faber & Faber, Date: 2000. Paperback. Good. This is a masterly narrative history of the Seven Years War, in which the B ritish decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, and yet a lso managed to ignite the slow-burning fuse of the American Revolution.Fred Anderson observes how the war displaced native peoples from their previous ly central role in an American diplomatic system; how it gave American colo nists their first encounters with real live Englishmen; and how Americans w ere consequently emboldened to rally against the men who were once their ma sters. Anderson offers a wholly engrossing account of the conflict, interwe aving the stories of kings and officers with those of traders, Native Ameri cans, and colonial peoples. 2000. Faber & Faber ISBN 0571205658 9780571205653 [JP] |