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Article: David Dixon. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America.(Book review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- September 22, 2005
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David Dixon. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Pp. 353. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95.
When David Dixon's students challenged him to explain what motivated backcountry settlers to fight in the American Revolution, he was led eventually to a reexamination of Pontiac's Uprising. Like most recent historians, Dixon rejects the idea of a conspiracy hatched by the Ottawa leader, placing the rebellion instead within the larger context of imperial competition. Never Come to Peace Again's central argument is that during the Seven Years ...
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