On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British
crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty
conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial
expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending
collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a
problem exacerbated by, uncooperative, resistant colonial
governments.
In the first book on the subject in more than forty-five years,
Timothy J. Shannon definitively rewrites the historical record on
the Albany Congress. Challenging the received wisdom that has
equated the Congress and the plan of colonial union it produced
with the origins of American independence, Shannon demonstrates
conclusively the Congress's importance in the wider context of
Britain's eighteenth-century Atlantic empire. In the process, the
author poses a formidable challenge to the Iroquois Influence
Thesis. The Six Nations, he writes, had nothing to do with the
drafting of the Albany Plan, which borrowed its model of
constitutional union not from the Iroquois but from the colonial
delegates' British cousins.
Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional
Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois
alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of
intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism
wielded by a distant authority.
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