Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : old forts, new perspectives: thoughts on the Seven Years' War and its significance / Fred Anderson -- British culture and the changing character of the mid-eighteenth-century British empire / Paul Mapp -- Great power confrontation or clash of cultures? : France's war against Britain and its antecedents / Jonathan R. Dull -- War, diplomacy, and culture : the Iroquois experience in the Seven Years' War / Timothy J. Shannon -- Declaring independence : the Ohio indians and the Seven Years' War / Eric Hinderaker -- How the Seven Years' War turned Americans into (British) patriots / Woody Holton -- The Seven Years' War in Canadian history and memory / Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer.