Description: This handbook provides up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war (Europe, South Asia, and the Americas) treating each theater as distinct from one another but linked in significant ways that helped create a new geopolitics from the 1760s onward.
Review Quotes: "Each chapter is fully footnoted and equipped with 'Further Reading'. There are many excellent maps and high-quality illustrations. For anyone approaching the Seven Years War-or indeed any aspect of mid eighteenth-century Europe-this hefty volume will be the starting-point. All contributors to this impressive and immensely valuable compendium convey illuminating information and insights." -- Tim Blanning, International Journal of Military History and Historiography
"All contributors to this impressive and immensely valuable compendium convey illuminating information and insights." -- Tim Blanning, International Journal of Military History and Historiography "The editors of The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War are to be congratulated for producing the first truly comprehensive treatment of the Seven Years' War as a global conflict. This ambitious and lengthy volume is a fitting contribution to a series that has done so much to synthesize events with a broad scholarly literature." -- Alexander S. Burns, European History Quarterly