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Article: Walter R. Borneman. The French & Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America.(Book review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- March 22, 2007
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Walter R. Borneman. The French & Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Pp. 384. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $27.95.
The Seven Years' War, the pivotal eighteenth-century imperial conflict for North America, has been the subject of a flurry of scholarship in recent decades. Walter Borneman has added to this body of work with an artfully written volume that will appeal to general readers, students, and scholars alike.
Though the Seven Years' War was a global conflict, Borneman chooses to focus on its North American component--the same focus, he argues, that British Prime Minister William ...