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Fred Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Data di nascita
1949 -04-11
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Istruzione
Colorado State University (BA)
Harvard College (PhD)
Attività lavorative
professor

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WOW! Just WOW!
This is one of the clearest, and most concise books on history I have ever read. Fred Anderson takes a little talked about time in not only American but world history and spreads a web across the globe like hot butter. Who would have known what the events taking place in this short amount of time would lead to. The author brings out so many situations that are pure foreshadowing to not only the American Revolution but the Civil War as well. The players on this stage fly off the page and shake you. Wolfe, Washington, Montcalm, Pitt, Braddock... and many others. As you read this book these men are standing right in front of you. Washington with his calm expression of surprise and his ability to absorb the events unfolding around him. Wolfe in his manic OCD mannerisms. Braddock's one track mind. Pitt's desire for over achievement and the melancholy distrusting mind of Montcalm. My favorite chapter is probably the battle of Quebec between Wolfe and Montcalm. This book is highly recommended and you can smell it. It is amazing what History writers like Anderson bring to the table. Anderson is in good company with, Asbridge, Bauer and Dan Jones. It is quite obvious how much a labor of love this book is. My hats off to Mr. Anderson for sharing it with us.
Having finished this book only a few days ago It is still lingering in my mind. The last half of the book goes into detail in regards to the events that would eventually lead to revolution: The Stamp act and other events that ruffled the feathers of the Colonist. The author really shows us the way they looked at the world around them. The ghosts of men like Wolfe and Braddock and their deeds (or misdeeds, accomplishments or failures) regardless, their actions teetered like ghosts as the road to change went from one lane to a super highway in a very short period of time.
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JHemlock | 8 altre recensioni | Jan 5, 2024 |
Good Book for the Casual Reader of History

Professor Anderson's book gives us about as complete a recounting of the French And Indian War as can be accomplished in under 300 pages. In "The War That Made America" he has deftly related the events of this period with sound explanations of the struggles and motivations that brought participants from so many different social and political groups to this conflict. He thoroughly explains what was stake for the parties involved and the consequences for nations and leaders, with particular emphasis on the contributions of George Washington and how the expulsion of the French from North America and the imperial actions of the British crown created the events and climate that brought on the American Revolution.

The most significant contribution of this book is how Mr. Anderson has made an understanding of the French And Indian War accessible in a volume aimed at the general reader of history. I highly recommend this book to other general history readers.
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Chipa | 12 altre recensioni | Apr 2, 2021 |
Though long overshadowed in the traditional historical narrative by the American Revolution, the Seven Years’ War, as Fred Anderson argues, is the most important event in the eighteenth-century North American history. Fought in the untamed wilderness which both France and Britain claimed, the struggle brought an end to the French empire in North America. Yet ironically in doing so, it sowed the seeds for the eventual collapse of Britain’s own empire in the Americas by expanding it beyond a manageable size and creating pressures that ultimately led the thirteen colonies to rebel. This war and its legacy is the subject of this superb book, one that offers a complex and inter-layered narrative of the origins, conduct, and consequences of this often-ignored conflict.

Anderson begins by examining the interaction between the British, the French, and the Iroquois in the Ohio Valley. Sandwiched between the two European empire, the Iroquois Confederacy played one off the other successfully for many years. Yet land concessions to the British in the 1740s soon paved the way for growing encroachment of the Ohio Valley by British colonists, prompting the French to assert their own claims to the region. When war erupted in 1754 (as a result of a clash between a French force and a party of Virginians and Indians, one carefully reconstructed and dramatically retold by Anderson), it expanded gradually into a general conflict between Britain and France, with fighting taking place on nearly every continent.

The war is the dominant focus of Anderson’s book, and he supplies a readable and insightful narrative of the course of the war. While his focus is predominantly on the political and military struggles in North America, he also provides an description of the relevant British politics and a summary of the war in Europe. Particularly notable is his coverage of the Native Americans, which he depicts not as opportunistic savages but as canny political operators who saw themselves as free agents involved in a web of relationships with each other as well as with the colonial powers. Though the book bogs down in his subsequent examination of the postwar adjustments to British victory, these chapters make for fascinating reading by demonstrating just how close the link was between the problems posed by Britain’s triumph and the protests that ultimately would lead to rebellion.

By the end of the book, it is hard to deny the merits of Anderson’s argument. Through his expert analysis and deft interweaving of people and events, he succeeds in restoring the Seven Years’ War to the pivotal place it deserves in American history. Clearly written and supplemented with numerous images and maps, it is a masterful study of the war, one unlikely to be surpassed in its breadth of coverage or quality of its analysis. For anyone seeking a history of the war and its legacy for American history, this is the book to read.
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MacDad | 8 altre recensioni | Mar 27, 2020 |
This is a brief, well written, and sometime humorous account of the "accidental" world war kicked off by George Washington and an argument that this war led to a sense of separation between the British colonies in North America and their rulers in England. Some of the military situations involve so much chance, luck, guile, and subterfuge, that the book reads like a good novel, without sacrificing accuracy or historicity.

A book that's worth the time, if you are interested in the French and Indian Wars, or want to understand the military, social, and continental underpinings of the American Revolutionary War.… (altro)
 
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jordanjones | 12 altre recensioni | Feb 21, 2020 |

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ISBN
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