| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Opening New Markets: The British Army and the Old Northwest. By Walter S. Dunn Jr. (Westport: Praeger, 2002. x, 200 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97329-8.)

Opening New Markets by the retired museum director Walter S. Dunn Jr. is his third offering in a series describing the British army and the American frontier in the years preceding the American Revolution. This volume is a sequel to Frontier Profit and Loss: The British Army and the Fur Traders, 1760–1764, published in 1998, and The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the New American Frontier, 1764–1768, published in 2001.

In Opening New Markets, Dunn argues that the economic consequences of British policies along the trans-Appalachian frontier in the wake of the Seven Years' War benefited British merchants and French traders in Canada while harming the interests of American merchants. The detrimental effects of British policy could be seen in two aspects of the frontier economy. First, American merchants doing business in Canada, the lower Great Lakes region, Pennsylvania, the Ohio Valley, and the Mississippi Valley had prospered during the war by supplying the British army while it served in the conflict. But after 1768 these same merchants saw their incomes diminish drastically as the British both reduced the number of troops in North America and redeployed many regiments stationed along the western border to the East Coast.

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