Description:
On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending...
Brief description: Timothy J. Shannon is Associate Professor of History at Gettysburg College.
Review Quotes:
This quietly written account of the Albany Congress as a stage in the evolution of empire comprehends the historical issues of the congress and raises some historiographical issues by implication... His work is to be welcomed.
--Francis Jennings, Newberry Library "The Journal of American History"