Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Old Forts, New Perspectives—Thoughts on the Seven Years' War and Its Significance
Chapter 2: British Culture and the Changing Character of the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Chapter 3: Great Power Confrontation or Clash of Cultures? France's War against Britain and Its Antecedents
Chapter 4: War, Diplomacy, and Culture: The Iroquois Experience in the Seven Years' War
Chapter 5: Declaring Independence: The Ohio Indians and the Seven Years' War
Chapter 6: How the Seven Years' War Turned Americans into (British) Patriots
Chapter 7: The Seven Years' War in Canadian History and Memory

About the Author

Warren R. Hofstra is Stewart Bell Professor of American History at Shenandoah University. Of his numerous publications, he is the author of The Planting of New Virginia: Shenandoah Valley Landscapes, 1700–1800 and the coeditor of George Washington and the Virginia Back Country.

Reviews

This book offers an up-to-date and relevant look at the war from a variety of viewpoints, including Canadians, Native tribes, Europeans, and American Colonist. In the process, these essays paint a vivid portrait of not only the causes and execution of war, but also its long term impact on American History, native cultures, the ongoing hostilities between native peoples and Anglo colonists. . . . A compelling book, and essential reading for anyone with an interest in any aspect of the war.
*History In Review*

The essays in the volume stand as a testament to the editor and contributors.
*Virginia Magazine*

Jonathan Dull's chapter on France in this era is perhaps the best overview of the French role in the war to be found.
*The Historian*

Cultures in Conflict is an exceptional collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars. Readers will find a historiographic overview and the most recent archival research on the Seven Years' War in North America. This book raises an intriguing set of questions about early America and offers refreshing new perspectives. Particular emphasis is placed on the pivotal role played by native communities, and on the way the conflict forced native peoples to create new political and economic identities to survive its devastation.
*Jane T. Merritt, Old Dominion University, author of At the Crossroads*