The Seven Years War: A Transatlantic History (War, History by Matt Schumann,Karl W. Schweizer

By Matt Schumann,Karl W. Schweizer

The Seven Years conflict has been defined because the first worldwide clash in historical past. It engulfed the Euro-Atlantic global from 1756 to 1763, and engaged the energies of ecu cupboards as by no means prior to. greater than earlier conflicts, the Seven Years battle concerned a number of methods to battle, and taxed the army, fabric and ethical assets of the powers concerned.


Drawing on a various array of archival, published basic and secondary assets, The Seven Years battle: A Transatlantic History covers the war’s origins, its behavior on land and at sea, its results on logistics and finance, its interactions with family politics, its effect on diplomacy and its method of peace. The ebook highlights the position of character, along the iconic value of conversation, misperception and knowing. In so doing, it endeavours no longer only to chronicle the war’s occasions, yet to situate them within the context of mid-eighteenth century battle, finance, politics and diplomacy.


The Seven Years War might be of serious curiosity to scholars of the ecu background, American heritage, maritime historical past, diplomatic and army history.

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