| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754–1815. Ed. by Julie Flavell and Stephen Conway. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. x, 284 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-8130-2781-0.)

The nine essays in this volume discuss a critical period in the history of the emerging Atlantic world. By analyzing aspects of the Seven Years' War, the War of American Independence, and the War of 1812, the nine historians represented here go beyond earlier scholarship to depict the emergence of a new international order. Most historians generally have pictured these events as an exclusively American matter, with the United States of America dealing with and being shaped by the experiences of these wars. In a sense, the authors see this as a continuing process, with English-speaking colonies and communities being molded and reconfigured from 1754 to 1815, as old loyalties and identities were altered or destroyed and new ones created. It becomes clear that no outcomes were preordained. But Eliga Gould shows in his concluding essay that a new Atlantic international order was being formed, modeled upon the European state system and incorporating former colonies, both English- and Spanish-speaking. Many of the authors contribute to the debate among military historians about the impact of war upon national identity, addressing whether wars tend to promote or weaken centrist tendencies in states.

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