| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Gregory Evans Dowd. War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 360. $32.00.
For a book about a war, there is remarkably little fighting in this latest work by Gregory Evans Dowd. Instead there is a great deal of talking: diplomatic speeches, religious visions, angry testimony, racist jokes, boasting, spying, lying, and above all rumors. Dowd brilliantly illustrates how words were a form of action in frontier politics. This well-written narrative not only provides the latest and most authoritative account of Pontiac's War: it demonstrates how hopes and fears were as historically significant as actual deeds.	1
There is, of course, some combat. However, to understand the "war" as Dowd sees it one must understand the fundamental question that lay at its heart: what place would Native Americans have in the British Empire now that New France was gone? Pontiac and his fellows forced this question on the empire, which never quite got around to answering it. As a result, Dowd maintains, the status of Native Americans in both the United States and Canada remains ambiguous to this day.	. . .

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