| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

"Haughty Conquerors": Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763. By William R. Nester. (Westport: Praeger, 2000. xiv, 296 pp. $69.50, ISBN 0-275-96770-0.)

The title of this brief book would suggest a new approach to one of the best known events in the history of the British colonial frontier: the 1763–1765 war between trans-Appalachian Indians and the British army. Instead, we are offered a very conventional narrative of the war itself, another military history of the frontier. Instead of examining the still-unexplored dimensions of Lord Jeffrey Amherst's animus toward Indians, William R. Nester provides yet another summary of campaigns and battles. And, in addressing the "Great Indian Uprising," he places his work squarely within an older, now largely discredited, tradition that views native peoples as merely reacting to, rather than acting on, colonial powers. . . .

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