War That Made America A Short History of the French and Indian War

Name: War That Made America A Short History of the French and Indian War
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ISBN: 9780670034543

ISBN-10: 0670034541

ISBN-13: 9780670034543

Edition: 2005

Authors: Fred Anderson

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Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian Waralso known as the Seven Years Warand yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That Made America, a four-part documentary about this epic conflict. Fred Anderson, the award-winning and critically acclaimed historian, has written the official tie-in to this exciting television event. In The War That Made America, Anderson deftly shows how the expansion of the British colonies into French territory in the 1750s and the ongoing Native American struggle for survival would erupt into seven years of bloodshed and unrest spreading from the…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Prologue : New York, July 1776



A delicate balance



The half king's dilemma



Confrontation on the Ohio



"Thou art not yet dead, my father"



Intervention



Braddock's march



A lake defended, a province purged



La Guerre Sauvage



The European war begins



The making of a "massacre"



The ascent of William Pitt



The Red Cross of Carillon



Louisbourg



Colonel Bradstreet's coup



Makers of war, makers of peace



General Forbes's last campaign



Reckonings



A shift in the balance



Incident at La Belle Famille



General Amherst hesitates



The plains of Abraham



"A mighty empire"



The Spanish gambit



Peace



Insurrection



Crisis and resolution



A patriot's progress


Epilogue : legacies