The Culture of the Seven Years' War : : Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World / / Frans de Bruyn, Shaun Regan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Regan, Shaun,; de Bruyn, Frans,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)

The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was the decisive conflict of the eighteenth century - Winston Churchill called it the first "world war" - and the clash which forever changed the course of North American history. Yet compared with other momentous conflicts like the Napoleonic Wars or...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 From Vernon to Wolfe: Empire and Identity in the British Atlantic World of the Mid-Eighteenth Century
• 2 1759 - Year of Decision?
• 3 Colonial Disease, Translation, and Enlightenment: Franco-British Medicine and the Seven Years' War
• 4 "Under His Majesty's Protection": The Meaning of the Conquest for the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
• 5 Paper Wars: Literature and/as Conflict during the Seven Years' War
• 6 Shakespeare, Voltaire, and the Seven Years' War: Literary Criticism as Cultural Battlefield
• 7 "What d'ye call him, Tierconneldrago ...": Oliver Goldsmith and the Seven Years' War
• 8 The View from St James's Palace in 1759: A Court Perspective on the Annus Mirabilis
• 9 "Unfit to Serve": Honour, Masculinity, and the Fate of Lord George Sackville
• 10 Olaudah Equiano and the Seven Years' War: Slavery, Service, and the Sea
• 11 Setting the Empire in Stone: Commemorating Wolfe in the Gardens at Stowe
• 12 George Stubbs's The Zebra and the Spectacle of Fine Art at the End of the Seven Years' War
• 13 Facing Past and Future Empires: Joshua Reynolds's Portraits of Augustus Keppel
• Notes on Contributors
• Index