The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America Calloway Colin G.
The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America Calloway Colin G. In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris…
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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America Calloway Colin G.
In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships.Britain now possessed a vast American empire stretching from Canada to the Florida Keys, yet the crushing costs of maintaining it would push its colonies toward rebellion. In the Northwest, Pontiac's War brought racial conflict to its bitterest level so far. White settlers, free to pour into the West, clashed as never before with Indian tribes struggling to defend their way of life.
Whole ethnic groups migrated, sometimes across the continent: it was 1763 that saw many exiled settlers from Acadia in French Canada move again to
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