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Cultures in Conflict - The Seven Years' War in North America (Paperback): Warren R. Hofstra Cultures in Conflict - The Seven Years' War in North America (Paperback)
Warren R. Hofstra; Contributions by Fred Anderson, Catherine Desbarats, Jonathan R. Dull, Allan Greer, …
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Seven Years' War (1754-1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts understood and experienced the war (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in various ways. In many instances the progress of the conflict was charted by cultural differences and the implications participants drew from cultural encounters. It is these cultural encounters, their meaning in the context of the Seven Years' War, and their impact on the war and its diplomatic settlement that are the subjects of this volume. Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America addresses the broad pattern of events that framed this conflict's causes, the intercultural dynamics of its conduct, and its profound impact on subsequent events-most notably the American Revolution and a protracted Anglo-Indian struggle for continental control. Warren R. Hofstra has gathered the best of contemporary scholarship on the war and its social and cultural history. The authors examine the viewpoints of British and French imperial authorities, the issues motivating Indian nations in the Ohio Valley, the matter of why and how French colonists fought, the diplomatic and social world of Iroquois Indians, and the responses of British colonists to the conflict. The result of these efforts is a dynamic historical approach in which cultural context provides a rationale for the well-established military and political narrative of the Seven Years' War. These synthetic and interpretive essays mark out new territory in our understanding of the Seven Years' War as we recognize its 250th anniversary.

Cultures in Conflict - The Seven Years' War in North America (Hardcover): Warren R. Hofstra Cultures in Conflict - The Seven Years' War in North America (Hardcover)
Warren R. Hofstra; Contributions by Fred Anderson, Catherine Desbarats, Jonathan R. Dull, Allan Greer, …
R2,915 Discovery Miles 29 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Seven Years' War (1754 1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts understood and experienced the war (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in various ways. In many instances the progress of the conflict was charted by cultural differences and the implications participants drew from cultural encounters. It is these cultural encounters, their meaning in the context of the Seven Years' War, and their impact on the war and its diplomatic settlement that are the subjects of this volume. Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America addresses the broad pattern of events that framed this conflict's causes, the intercultural dynamics of its conduct, and its profound impact on subsequent events most notably the American Revolution and a protracted Anglo-Indian struggle for continental control. Warren R. Hofstra has gathered the best of contemporary scholarship on the war and its social and cultural history. The authors examine the viewpoints of British and French imperial authorities, the issues motivating Indian nations in the Ohio Valley, the matter of why and how French colonists fought, the diplomatic and social world of Iroquois Indians, and the responses of British colonists to the conflict. The result of these efforts is a dynamic historical approach in which cultural context provides a rationale for the well-established military and political narrative of the Seven Years' War. These synthetic and interpretive essays mark out new territory in our understanding of the Seven Years' War as we recognize its 250th anniversary."

Elusive Empires - Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 (Hardcover, New): Eric Hinderaker Elusive Empires - Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 (Hardcover, New)
Eric Hinderaker
R2,474 Discovery Miles 24 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines and compares the efforts of France, Britain, and the United States to extend imperial dominion over the Ohio Valley, focusing on the relations between Europeans and Indians to tell the story. In a compelling narrative, it considers the ways in which France and Great Britain each attempted to create viable empires in the region, the conflicts that resulted, and the origins and outcome of the American Revolution in the West. The result is a fascinating story that offers a strikingly new interpretation of the origins, progress, and effects of the American Revolution.

Boston's Massacre (Paperback): Eric Hinderaker Boston's Massacre (Paperback)
Eric Hinderaker
R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

George Washington Prize Finalist Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize "Fascinating... Hinderaker's meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning... [Its] meanings have plenty to tell us about America's identity, past and present." -Wall Street Journal On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most famous and least understood incidents in American history. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic confrontation, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity. "Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid writing, he shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created a nation." -Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions "Seldom does a book appear that compels its readers to rethink a signal event in American history. It's even rarer...to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling clarity and grace. Boston's Massacre is a gem." -Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War

Elusive Empires - Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 (Paperback, Revised): Eric Hinderaker Elusive Empires - Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 (Paperback, Revised)
Eric Hinderaker
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines and compares the efforts of France, Britain, and the United States to extend imperial dominion over the Ohio Valley, focusing on the relations between Europeans and Indians to tell the story. In a compelling narrative, it considers the ways in which France and Great Britain each attempted to create viable empires in the region, the conflicts that resulted, and the origins and outcome of the American Revolution in the West. The result is a fascinating story that offers a strikingly new interpretation of the origins, progress, and effects of the American Revolution.

The Two Hendricks - Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery (Paperback): Eric Hinderaker The Two Hendricks - Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery (Paperback)
Eric Hinderaker
R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In September 1755, the most famous Indian in the world a Mohawk leader known in English as King Hendrick died in the Battle of Lake George. He was fighting the French in defense of British claims to North America, and his death marked the end of an era in Anglo-Iroquois relations. He was not the first Mohawk of that name to attract international attention. Half a century earlier, another Hendrick worked with powerful leaders in the frontier town of Albany. He cemented his transatlantic fame when he traveled to London as one of the four Indian kings.

Until recently the two Hendricks were thought to be the same person. Eric Hinderaker sets the record straight, reconstructing the lives of these two men in a compelling narrative that reveals the complexities of the Anglo-Iroquois alliance, a cornerstone of Britain s imperial vision. The two Hendricks became famous because, as Mohawks, they were members of the Iroquois confederacy and colonial leaders believed the Iroquois held the balance of power in the Northeast. As warriors, the two Hendricks aided Britain against the French; as Christians, they adopted the trappings of civility; as sachems, they stressed cooperation rather than bloody confrontation with New York and Great Britain.

Yet the alliance was never more than a mixed blessing for the two Hendricks and the Iroquois. Hinderaker offers a poignant personal story that restores the lost individuality of the two Hendricks while illuminating the tumultuous imperial struggle for North America.

America's History: For the Ap(r) Course (Hardcover, 9th ed.): James A. Henretta, Eric Hinderaker, Rebecca Edwards, Robert... America's History: For the Ap(r) Course (Hardcover, 9th ed.)
James A. Henretta, Eric Hinderaker, Rebecca Edwards, Robert O. Self
R4,572 Discovery Miles 45 720 Out of stock
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