Fred Anderson
Birth date: January 01, 1949
Fred Anderson's Books
Though long overshadowed in the traditional historical narrative by the American Revolution, the Seven Years’ War, as Fred Anderson argues, is the most important event in the eighteenth-century North American history. Fought in the untamed wilderness which both France and Britain claimed, the strugg...
I should have paid closer attention to the note: “the official companion to the PBS miniseries of the same title.” Maybe you have to read this and see the TV show to get the full story. This book was like the root beer without the ice cream. It’s good but it doesn’t measure up to a great root beer ...
In depth and interesting but he doesn't really convince me on his argument, that the Seven Years War was THE causal factor in the revolution. There's too much exposition and not enough analysis to really believe it. Besides, I don't buy the argument that there was a sole determining factor. That ...
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