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Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America * Edited by Warren R. Hofstra * Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 * xvi, 192 pp. * $75.00 cloth; $26.95 paper
Emerging out of a conference convened in October 2004 at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America is an ambitious attempt to fuse the methodologies of ethnohistorical and cultural studies in order to reveal the multifarious roles cultural unity, adaptability, and dissonance played among the participants in the struggle for North America. Under the leadership of Warren R. Hofstra and Fred Anderson, author of the acclaimed Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, the collection of seven essays engages a wide range of culture-related topics. From Paul Mapp's examination of the influence of British political culture on the empire's decision to go to war with France to Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer's study of the consequences of...