The French & Indian War, or the Seven Years' War
I have always been drawn to the first world war, the one that began in a remote glen in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1754 and by its end changed the look of the world in 1763. It sets up the American War of Independence, the decades of war between Britain and France -- in many ways, the modern age itself. For twenty years I attended as a vendor the annual seminar of the Braddock Road Preservation Association, and it educated and entertained me with some of the best scholars in the field. On this page I will offer new books and classics, dvds and audiobooks, and any other worthy items of the 18th century that relate to the "wilderness war."
Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America
Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America
Anthropologist Jack Weatherford described the many contributions to culture of North and South American Indians in Indian Givers (70,000 trade paperbacks sold). Now he brilliantly shows how white settlers of the New World grafted their European civilization onto the deep roots of Native American customs. What resulted was an Indianguage to the economy.