Frank Conaway

A truly excellent scholarly account.

Revisado: 07-17-16

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An excellent scholarly treatment of the multifarious outfalls of the Treaty of Paris of 1763, with particular reference to the influence of the cession to Britain of French-claimed lands between the Appalachians and the Great Lakes and Mississippi. All players are comprehensively discussed: the French colonists more or less abandoned by their home country; the American colonists hungry for western land and the benefits of Indian trade; policy-makers in London and Paris, and their militaries in interior North America; the Spanish, despoiled of Florida, and almost embarrassed by acquiring trans-Mississippi Louisiana; and above all the Indians beset by pressures on every side and no longer able to play British, French, and Spaniards against one another to try to maintain their independence of action, to secure their lands, and to maintain the trade essential to their survival.Many readers will be familiar with the general outline of this account, and with many of the names and places referenced, but few, probably, will have ever read a comprehensive treatment of all the moving parts in this story so pregnant for the immediate future of eastern North America in 1763. Note: this is decidedly not a history of the French and Indian war, which is dispatched in a matter of a few paragraphs preliminary to the main subject of the book.It is regrettable and remarkable that neither the director nor narrator knows how to pronounce "hegemony."

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