Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the Transformation of North America

Name: Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the Transformation of North America
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ISBN: 9780195300710

ISBN-10: 0195300718

ISBN-13: 9780195300710

Edition: 2005

Authors: Colin G. Calloway

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In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As the great historian Francis Parkman wrote, "half a continent...changed hands at the scratch of a pen." As Colin Calloway reveals in this superb history, the Treaty set in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences. Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire stretching from Canada to the Florida Keys, yet the crushing costs of maintaining it would push its…

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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Editor's Note


Acknowledgments


1763 Timeline


Introduction: War, Peace, and Revolution



America and Americans in 1763



Contested Lands


Land and Freedom in Indian Country


Emigrants and Settlers


Speculators



The First War of Independence


Pontiac's War


The Settlers' War


The Redcoats' War



Setting Boundaries


A Line in the Mountains


The Treaty of Augusta and the Southern Indians



Endings and Endurance in French America


Quebec


The Interior French



Louisiana Transfer and Mississippi Frontier


A New Order in Lower Mississippi Indian Country


Lingering French and Reluctant Spanish


Frontier Defenses and Indian Power in the West



Exiles and Expulsions


Leaving Florida


Jesuit Expulsion and Acadian Reunion


Epilogue: A Tale of Two Treaties


Notes


Index