The Oxford handbook of the Seven Years' War

"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 fro...

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Weitere Verfasser: Burnard, Trevor G. 1960-2024 (HerausgeberIn), Hart, Emma 1972- (HerausgeberIn), Houllemare, Marie 1975- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Oxford handbooks series
Schlagworte:Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 General & world history Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte HISTORY / Military / General HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century HISTORY / World Siebenjähriger Krieg
Umfang:xxxii, 751 Seiten
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / by Trevor Burnard, Emma Hart, and Marie Houllemare
  • Part One: Global War
  • Armies / Stephen Conway
  • Manpower / Matthew Dziennik
  • Warfare: Tactics and Technology / Émilie Dosquet
  • Resources / Peter H. Wilson
  • Disease and Medicine during a Global War: Forging a European Identity / Erica Charters
  • Empires / François-Joseph Ruggiu
  • Maritime Warfare and the Expansion of British Seapower in the Seven Years' War / Anna Brinkman
  • Making Peace in a World at War: The Treaty of Paris (1763) / Eliga Gould
  • Part Two: Europe
  • Europe and Global Dynamics, 1713-1755 / Sven Externbrink
  • Going to War / Paul Vo-Ha
  • The Third Silesian War / Adam L. Storring
  • European Geopolitics, 1756-
  • Edmond Dziembowski
  • Maritime Law and Neutrality in the Seven Years' War / Leos Müller
  • The Economic and Financial Consequences of the Seven Years' War in Europe / Manuel Covo
  • Part Three: South Asia
  • The Mughal Empire / Abhishek Kaicker
  • The East India Companies and the Seven Years' War / Danna Agmon and Philip J. Stern
  • War in South Asia / Kaushik Roy
  • The Indian Ocean World / Jonathan Eacott
  • Aftermaths of War in South Asia / Elizabeth Cross
  • Climate, Environment, and Crisis in Eighteenth Century India / Vinita Damodaran
  • The Aftermath of the War: French Careers in Eighteenth Century India / Seema Alavi
  • Part Four: Americas and Africa
  • North America and the World, Late Seventeenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century/ Paul Mapp
  • North American Breakdown / Michael A. McDonnell
  • War in North America / Eric Hinderaker
  • War in the Caribbean / Eric Schnakenbourg
  • The Seven Years' War in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires / Kristie Patricia Flannery
  • The Seven Years' War in West Africa / Pernille Røge
  • Africans, Slavery, and the Slave Trade / Maria Alessandra Bollettino
  • Native America after 1763 / Susan Sleeper-Smith
  • "'Exchanging French Slavery for English liberty'": Governing by Humanity and Sound policy in
  • Post-Conquest Quebec? / Nancy Christie
  • The American Revolution / Edward G. Gray
  • Part Five: Global Themes and Dynamics
  • Visual Arts and Culture / Douglas Fordham
  • Luxury and Consumption / Robert S. DuPlessis
  • Science and Technology during the Seven Years' War / Stéphane Van Damme
  • Demography and the Seven Years' War/ Mark Peterson
  • Women and Gender / Sara T. Damiano
  • Religion and Politics in the Seven Years' War / Brian Young and Richard Whatmore
  • Commemoration and Memory / Marian Füssel.