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This handbook contains 38 essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war -- Europe, South Asia, and the Americas -- treating each theater as distinct from one other but linked in significant ways that helped create a new geopolitics from the 1760s onward. Chapters trace the causes of the war in the interior of America; outline the triumphs of Britain and Prussia in fierce fighting across Europe; and explain how the British under the East India Company came to play an important role in South Asian politics and commerce. The handbook pays due attention to military conflict but does much more than this; contributors also investigate social, cultural, and intellectual developments in a crucial period of reorientation during the mid-eighteenth century. The handbook is notably diverse in its authorship, with leading scholars on the Seven Years' War from Europe and South Asia as well as Britain and North America, providing perspectives from many areas outside an Anglo-American frame. It treats the Seven Years' War as a world-transformative event: important not only in its own right -- in shaping commerce, politics, science, art, demography, religion and gender during the conflict -- but also central to the evolving history of South Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Trevor Burnard is the Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation and the Director of the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull; Emma Hart is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Chair in American History and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; Marie Houllemare is Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Geneva.
The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' WarIntroductionTrevor Burnard, Emma Hart, and Marie HoullemarePart One: Global War 1. ArmiesStephen Conway2. ManpowerMatthew Dziennik3. Warfare: Tactics and TechnologyÉmilie Dosquet4. ResourcesPeter H. Wilson5. Disease and Medicine during a Global War: Forging a European IdentityErica Charters6. EmpiresFrançois-Joseph Ruggiu7. Maritime Warfare and the Expansion of British Seapower in the Seven Years' WarAnna Brinkman8. Making Peace in a World at War: The Treaty of Paris (1763)Eliga Gould Part Two: Europe9. Europe and Global Dynamics, 1713-1755Sven Externbrink10. Going to WarPaul Vo-Ha11. The Third Silesian WarAdam L. Storring12. European Geopolitics, 1756-1783Edmond Dziembowski13. Maritime Law and Neutrality in the Seven Years' War Leos Müller14. The Economic and Financial Consequences of the Seven Years' War in Europe Manuel CovoPart Three: South Asia 15. The Mughal EmpireAbhishek Kaicker16. The East India Companies and the Seven Years' WarDanna Agmon and Philip J. Stern17. War in South AsiaKaushik Roy18. The Indian Ocean WorldJonathan Eacott19. Aftermaths of War in South AsiaElizabeth Cross20. Climate, Environment, and Crisis in Eighteenth Century IndiaVinita Damodaran21. The Aftermath of the War: French Careers in Eighteenth Century IndiaSeema AlaviPart Four: Americas and Africa 22. North America and the World, Late Seventeenth to Mid-Eighteenth CenturyPaul Mapp 23. North American BreakdownMichael A. McDonnell24. War in North AmericaEric Hinderaker25. War in the CaribbeanEric Schnakenbourg26. The Seven Years' War in the Spanish and Portuguese EmpiresKristie Patricia Flannery27. The Seven Years' War in West AfricaPernille Røge28. Africans, Slavery, and the Slave TradeMaria Alessandra Bollettino29. Native America after 1763Susan Sleeper-Smith30. "'Exchanging French Slavery for English Liberty": Governing by Humanity and Sound Policy In Post-Conquest Quebec?Nancy Christie31. The American RevolutionEdward G. GrayPart Five: Global Themes and Dynamics32. Visual Arts and CultureDouglas Fordham33. Luxury and ConsumptionRobert S. DuPlessis34. Science and Technology during the Seven Years' WarStéphane Van Damme35. Demography and the Seven Years' WarMark Peterson36. Women and GenderSara T. Damiano37. Religion and Politics in the Seven Years' WarBrian Young and Richard Whatmore38. Commemoration and MemoryMarian FüsselIndex
Each chapter is fully footnoted and equipped with 'Further Reading'. There are many excellent maps and high-quality illustrations. For anyone approaching the Seven Years War-or indeed any aspect of mid eighteenth-century Europe-this hefty volume will be the starting-point. All contributors to this impressive and immensely valuable compendium convey illuminating information and insights.