The Seven Years' War: Global ViewsMark Danley, Patrick Speelman In "The Seven Years War: Global Views," Mark H. Danley, Patrick J. Speelman, and sixteen other contributors reach beyond traditional approaches to illuminate the conflict as world war. An introduction addresses the challenges of discretely defining the war. Chapters examine theaters such as the Carnatic, Bengal, the Philippines, Portugal, Senegal, and the Caribbean. Other chapters treat understudied topics such as the Anglo-Cherokee campaigns, Sweden s participation, Ottoman neutrality, the Vatican, European perceptions of Cossacks and Kalmyks, the Enlightenment and the war, the choosing of sides in Europe and North America, social and political aspects of French and British military life, operational reconnaissance, and the war s complex ending in western Germany. A conclusion situates the war as a marker of modernity. Contributors are in order of appearance: Juergen Luh, Armstrong Starkey, Matthew C. Ward, G.J. Bryant, Johannes Burkhardt, Gunnar Aselius, Virginia H. Aksan, Julia Osman, Ewa Anklam, Mrian Fuessel, James Searing, Richard Harding, John Oliphant, Mark H. Danley, Patrick J. Speelman, Nicholas Tracy, and Matt Schumann. |
Contents
List of Figures | vii |
Acknowledgements | ix |
List of Contributors | xvii |
The Problem of the Seven Years War | xxiii |
1 Frederick the Great and the First World War | 1 |
The Philosophes and the War | 23 |
3 Understanding Native American Alliances | 47 |
4 The War in the Carnatic | 73 |
10 Féroces et barbares? Cossacks Kalmyks and Russian Irregular Warfare during the Seven Years War | 243 |
The End of Company Rule and the Emergence of the Habitants | 263 |
12 The War in the West Indies | 293 |
13 The AngloCherokee War 17591761 | 325 |
14 The British Political Press and Military Thought during the Seven Years War | 359 |
15 The War in Bengal | 399 |
16 Strategic Illusions and the Iberian War of 1762 | 429 |
17 The British Expedition to Manila | 461 |
5 Religious War or Imperial War? Views of the Seven Years War from Germany and Rome | 107 |
6 Sweden and the Pomeranian War | 135 |
7 The Ottoman Absence from the Battlefields of the Seven Years War | 165 |
French Officers in North America during the Seven Years War | 191 |
Military Reconnaissance in the German Theatre of War | 213 |
18 The End of the Seven Years War in Germany | 487 |
Father of the Modern Age | 519 |
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