| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754–1765. By Matthew C. Ward. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. xvi, 329 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8229-4214-3.)

This is the second book to appear recently on the topic of the frontier and backcountry of the middle colonies, the other being that by Jane T. Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763 (2003). There are, however, some crucial differences. Merritt covers a longer time scale, but her investigations are limited to the Susquehanna Valley. Also her approach is a cultural one. Matthew C. Ward, on the other hand, has a shorter time scale, limiting himself to the period of the Seven Years' War and its aftermath, but he includes Virginia in his investigations. He also focuses on the actual hostilities rather than the cultural context of events in the backcountry. The two books in consequence merit being read in tandem.

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