The Seven Years' War : Global Views
Mark. Danley
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Leiden : : BRILL, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (644 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - The Seven Years' War; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: 'The Problem' of the SevenYears' War; 1. Frederick the Great and the First 'World' War; 2. "To Encourage the Others": The Philosophes and the War; 3. Understanding Native American Alliances; 4. The War in the Carnatic; 5. Religious War or Imperial War? Views of the Seven Years' War from Germany and Rome; 6. Sweden and the Pomeranian War; 7. The Ottoman Absence from the Battlefields of the Seven Years' War. - 16. Strategic Illusions and the Iberian War of 176217. The British Expedition to Manila; 18. The End of the Seven Years' War in Germany; Conclusion: Father of the Modern Age; Selected Bibliography; Index. - 8. Pride, Prejudice and Prestige: French Officers in North America during the SevenYears' War9. Battre l'estrade: Military Reconnaissance in the German Theatre of War; 10. "Féroces et barbares?" Cossacks, Kalmyks and Russian Irregular Warfare during the SevenYears' War; 11. The Seven Years' War in West Africa: The End of Company Rule and the Emergence of the Habitants; 12. The War in the West Indies; 13. The Anglo-Cherokee War , 1759-1761; 14. The British Political Press and Military Thought during the Seven Years' War; 15. The War in Bengal. - In The Seven Years' War: Global Views, Mark H. Danley, Patrick J. Speelman, and sixteen other contributors reach beyond traditional approaches to the conflict. Chapters cover previously-understudied aspects of the war in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere.
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| ISBN | 9789004234086
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