The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded much of the continent east of the
Mississippi to Great Britain, a claim which the Indian nations of
the Great Lakes, who suddenly found themselves under British rule,
considered outrageous. Unlike the French, with whom Great Lakes
Indians had formed an alliance of convenience, the British entered
the upper Great Lakes in a spirit of conquest. British officers on
the frontier keenly felt the need to assert their assumed
superiority over both Native Americans and European settlers. At
the same time, Indian leaders expected appropriate tokens of
British regard, gifts the British refused to give. It is this issue
of respect that, according to Gregory Dowd, lies at the root of the
war the Ottawa chief Pontiac and his alliance of Great Lakes
Indians waged on the British Empire between 1763 and 1767.
In War under Heaven, Dowd boldly reinterprets the causes and
consequences of Pontiac's War. Where previous Anglocentric
histories have ascribed this dramatic uprising to disputes over
trade and land, this groundbreaking work traces the conflict back
to status: both the low regard in which the British held the
Indians and the concern among Native American leaders about their
people's standing -- and their sovereignty -- in the eyes of the
British. Pontiac's War also embodied a clash of world views, and
Dowd examines the central role that Indian cultural practices and
beliefs played in the conflict, explores the political and military
culture of the British Empire which informed the attitudes its
servants had toward Indians, provides deft and insightful portraits
of Pontiac and his British adversaries, and offers a detailed
analysis of the military and diplomaticstrategies of both sides.
Imaginatively conceived and compellingly told, War under Heaven
redefines our understanding of Anglo-Indian relations in the
colonial period.
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