Description:
This cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America focuses on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy.
Brief description: Christian Ayne Crouch is Assistant Professor of Historical Studies at Bard College.
Review Quotes:
In this new world, 'honour' still mattered, although not exactly the kind cultivated by French nobles. As Crouch indicates in her illuminating book, a man's reputation counted for everything in the borderlands of North America. Valour and intelligence did receive their reward in flourishing communities of mixed French and Native American communities--until these communities were destroyed by land-hungry American settlers in the 19th century.
-- "Literary Review of Canada"