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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.
Contents
The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War
Introduction
Trevor Burnard, Emma Hart, and Marie Houllemare
Part One: Global War
1. Armies
Stephen Conway
2. Manpower
Matthew Dziennik
3. Warfare: Tactics and Technology
Émilie Dosquet
4. Resources
Peter H. Wilson
5. Disease and Medicine during a Global War: Forging a European Identity
Erica Charters
6. Empires
François-Joseph Ruggiu
7. Maritime Warfare and the Expansion of British Seapower in the Seven Years' War
Anna Brinkman
8. Making Peace in a World at War: The Treaty of Paris (1763)
Eliga Gould
Part Two: Europe
9. Europe and Global Dynamics, 1713-1755
Sven Externbrink
10. Going to War
Paul Vo-Ha
11. The Third Silesian War
Adam L. Storring
12. European Geopolitics, 1756-1783
Edmond Dziembowski
13. Maritime Law and Neutrality in the Seven Years' War
Leos Müller
14. The Economic and Financial Consequences of the Seven Years' War in Europe
Manuel Covo
Part Three: South Asia
15. The Mughal Empire
Abhishek Kaicker
16. The East India Companies and the Seven Years' War
Danna Agmon and Philip J. Stern
17. War in South Asia
Kaushik Roy
18. The Indian Ocean World
Jonathan Eacott
19. Aftermaths of War in South Asia
Elizabeth Cross
20. Climate, Environment, and Crisis in Eighteenth Century India
Vinita Damodaran
21. The Aftermath of the War: French Careers in Eighteenth Century India
Seema Alavi
Part Four: Americas and Africa
22. North America and the World, Late Seventeenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century
Paul Mapp
23. North American Breakdown
Michael A. McDonnell
24. War in North America
Eric Hinderaker
25. War in the Caribbean
Eric Schnakenbourg
26. The Seven Years' War in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Kristie Patricia Flannery
27. The Seven Years' War in West Africa
Pernille Røge
28. Africans, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
Maria Alessandra Bollettino
29. Native America after 1763
Susan Sleeper-Smith
30. "'Exchanging French Slavery for English Liberty": Governing by Humanity and Sound Policy In Post-Conquest Quebec?
Nancy Christie
31. The American Revolution
Edward G. Gray
Part Five: Global Themes and Dynamics
32. Visual Arts and Culture
Douglas Fordham
33. Luxury and Consumption
Robert S. DuPlessis
34. Science and Technology during the Seven Years' War
Stéphane Van Damme
35. Demography and the Seven Years' War
Mark Peterson
36. Women and Gender
Sara T. Damiano
37. Religion and Politics in the Seven Years' War
Brian Young and Richard Whatmore
38. Commemoration and Memory
Marian Füssel
Index