| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2

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Book Review

War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, & the British Empire. By Gregory Evans Dowd. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xvi + 360 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $32.00.)

The biography of Pontiac is at the heart of Gregory Dowd's new account of the war that immortalized this Ottawa leader. Dowd integrates admittedly sketchy details of Pontiac's life and complex considerations of sociopolitical and economic forces in play during the years of British colonization of the Great Lakes region between 1760 and Pontiac's death in 1766. Dowd's broad perspective allows him to meld sketchy contemporary accounts about Pontiac himself with discussions about British colonial expansion and administration in North America, to build a more satisfying account of British colonial policy—one that places the rationales that motivated British subjects from Whitehall to Detroit, and the logic that motivated Pontiac and his followers at the center of his discussion.

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