About this title: In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As the great historian Francis Parkman wrote, "half a continent...changed hands at the scratch of a pen." As Colin Calloway reveals in this superb history, the Treaty set in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences. Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195300710ISBN:0195300718
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Bumps to corners, spine ends. Otherwise clean, unmarked, tight, square. Dj has general wear, rubbing, scratches. Glued binding. Black paper over boards. 219 p. 24 cm. Contains illustrations, bibliographical notes, index. Pivotal Moments in American History. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Hardcover First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195300710ISBN:0195300718
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195300710ISBN:0195300718
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. VG+ to Fine; binding solid; text clean. VG dust jacket with slight edge wear. Hardbound in black, paper-covered boards. 219 p. Contains: Illustrations. Pivotal Moments in American History Series. American History. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195331271ISBN:0195331273
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press, N Y.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195331271ISBN:0195331273
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195300710ISBN:0195300718
Description: As New/As New. 8vo 0195300718 as new copy in as new dust cover [multiple copies w/ slight shelf wear UNREAD] In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. Vast portions of American territory were ceded to new owners?as 19th-century historian Francis Parkman wrote, "half a continent...changed hands at the scratch of a pen. " As Dartmouth history professor Colin Calloway demonstrates here in vivid detail, the Treaty of Paris is at ... read more
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Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press, N Y.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195300710ISBN:0195300718
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195300710ISBN:0195300718
Description: Illustrated. Fine in Fine jacket. 6.5 x 9.5 hard cover book. Yellow lettering on the black and red dust jacket spine with a color illustrated cover. Colin Calloway reveals in this superb history how the Treaty set in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences. 219 pages. Clean with tight binding in Fine/Fine condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780195331271ISBN:0195331273
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007-09-24
ISBN-13:9780195331271ISBN:0195331273
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195300710ISBN:0195300718
Description: ISBN 0-19-530071-8. Hardback. First Printing. Very good plus condition book, with slight edgewear, in a Very good plus condition dustjacket, with slight creasing on top edge of jacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. $28.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. read more
"Not as well written as other books by professional historians aimed at the general public that I have recently read. However, the author provides a detailed picture of the changes to the North American continent that resulted from the 1763 Peace of Paris treaty than ended the momentous Seven Years War (usually called the French and Indian War in America). The treaty ended the French presence on the continent that dated back two centuries and included a huge amount of territory from the St. Lawrence in Canada to the mouth of the Mississippi. Britain was the big winner, but at the cost of huge war debts, which led to taxation of its American colonies, which in turn led to the rebellion of the colonies and the War of Independence, which ended with another Peace of Paris treaty twenty years later in 1783. The author devotes much attention to disruptions in patterns of trade and other cultural interaction between native peoples, colonists, and European empires resulting from the 1763 treaty, all of which I found enlightening."
"My city, St. Louis, was founded as a trading post in 1763. (Well, that's when Pierre Laclede and his stepson Auguste Chouteau came up the river from New Orleans and chose the site. They came back in February of the next year to start building.) I did know a lot else was happening on the continent that year, but never so well as Calloway tells it. Incidentally the Epilogue, the last seven pages of the book, is an excellent capsule "look ahead" discussion of the far-reaching influence this year and its events had on the future of the soon-to-be United States and the world in general."
"I really liked this book because it made me think about American history from a different perspective. It amazed me to find that the French signed away a huge tract of North America in exchange for a few islands--and they may have gotten the better part of the deal. It was also interesting to read that England gaining control of this region actually destabilized its hold on the continent."
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