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Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire - The Albany Congress of 1754 (Paperback)
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Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire - The Albany Congress of 1754 (Paperback)
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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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