Description: On the remote edge of the British empire, a quiet revolution unfolded in the wake of victory over France. Frontier Illinois became an experiment. The New Regime, 1765-1767 reveals, through contemporary documents, how colonial American history changed in the Illinois country during the tense post-French and Indian War transition. Here the eighteenth century Midwest emerges as a contested meeting ground, where imperial officials tried to impose a new order on an old French community and its Native allies. Clarence Walworth Alvord, a pioneering historian of the old Northwest frontier, assembles a meticulous documentary history collection that follows the first years of British rule in Illinois. Letters, reports and official papers are presented with scholarly care yet remain vivid for general readers, making this an ideal scholarly edition for researchers, for history students, and for readers of Francis Parkman seeking a deeper view of the British empire in America. The volume illuminates old Northwest frontier life as well as high policy, anchoring any serious academic library collection on the Illinois country 1760s and wider colonial America. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Prepared in a careful modern edition, The New Regime, 1765-1767 invites both dedicated scholars and curious newcomers into the documentary heart of a formative, often overlooked chapter in American and British imperial history.
