Harold E. Selesky, University of Alabama | Imperial Wars | The William and Mary Quarterly, 59.3

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Reviews of Books

Imperial Wars

The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607–1755. By WILLIAM R. NESTER. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000 . Pp. xvi, 326 . $ 72.50.)

Losing a Continent: France's North American Policy, 1753–1763. By FRANK W. BRECHER . Contributions to the Study of World History, 62. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998 . Pp. viii, 229 . $ 70.00 .)

France's Forgotten Legion: Service Records of French Military and Administrative Personnel Stationed in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast Region, 1699–1769. By CARL A. BRASSEAUX. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000 . Pp. xvi, 103 . CD-ROM Publication, $ 45.00. )

"Haughty Conquerors": Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763. By WILLIAM R. NESTER. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000 . Pp. xiv, 296. $ 72.50 .)

The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the American Frontier, 1764–1768. By WALTER S. DUNN, JR. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2001 . Pp. viii, 208 . $ 67.00 .)

Reviewed by Harold E. Selesky, University of Alabama

Recent years have seen a revival of interest in what used to be called the imperial wars, the conflicts waged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among European powers for dominance on the North American continent. For many years it had seemed that we had reached the end of imperial history, with nothing much more to be learned or understood about those epic struggles. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Francis Parkman's eight well-researched (for the time) and vividly written histories about the struggle of France and England in North America had provided a reassuring tale of how the good guys finally won.¹ By the middle of the twentieth century, as Lawrence Henry Gipson continued to produce volumes (eventually fifteen) in his series on the British empire before the American Revolution, the received canon seemed to offer little prospect of finding any subject that had not been incorporated into a chauvinist or imperial perspective.² . . .

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