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Article: Gregory Evans Dowd. War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- March 22, 2003
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War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 360. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $32.00.
In the 240 years since Native Americans launched a series of attacks on British military posts and settlers in the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley region, a number of historians have attempted to understand the conflict. Gregory Evans Dowd's War under Heaven places new emphasis on the old story of the misnamed Pontiac's Rebellion of 1763-1765. Previous efforts have focused on Britain's actions in provoking an Indian war on the frontier or given blow-by-blow accounts of the battles that took ...