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Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire

By Gregory Evans Dowd

(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 360. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $32.00.)


In War under Heaven, Gregory Evans Dowd offers a brilliant reinterpretation of the causes and consequences of Pontiac's War (1763–1765), a series of violent conflicts between western Indians and British soldiers that left thousands dead or displaced. Based on a vast array of primary research, Dowd's study transcends old debates about the character of Pontiac himself to reveal the cultural, social, and political context within which the war occurred. Along the way, he crafts a bold argument about the place of Indian peoples within the first British Empire.	1
For well over a century, historians have vigorously debated the causes of the war. Francis Parkman, who wrote the first and most enduring account in 1851, treated the war as a "conspiracy," planned by the cunning and despotic Pontiac who gained support for his murderous designs through intimidation and deceit. More recent studies have sidelined the issue of Pontiac's leadership and shifted to arguments about land ownership, the failure of British diplomacy, or the anti-Indian sentiments of westward-moving colonists.	. . .

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