Contributions

  • New York State Historical Association. - Contributor

Publication

2000 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

67,000 words, Guess

Page Count

268 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing3480991
  • Goodreads3447786

Classifications

  • DDC323.1/19755/009033
  • LCCE195 .S53 2000

Description

"On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments."--BOOK JACKET. "By tracing the local, provincial, and imperial settings of the Albany Congress, Shannon's book fleshes out the events that shook Britain's rule of North America. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism controlled by a distant authority."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Indians and colonists at the crossroads of empire: the Albany Congress of 1754Cornell University Press2000-01-01

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