| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, & the British Empire. By Gregory Evans Dowd. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xviii, 360 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-8018-7079-8.)

Provocatively written and masterfully researched, Gregory Evans Dowd's important new monograph provides the first book-length treatment of Pontiac's War since Howard Peckham's Pontiac and the Indian Uprising (1947). Dowd challenges much of the recent scholarship on the conflict, offering a bold new interpretation that links this Indian war with broader themes in Atlantic and Native American history. Dowd finds in Pontiac's War not only evidence of massive failure in British efforts to cope with their imperial victory in 1763 but also the seeds of two policies generally associated with the early American republic: denial of Native peoples' status as sovereign nations and their removal from proximity to white settlement.

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