The Culture of the Seven Years' War

The Culture of the Seven Years' War
By:Frans De Bruyn,Shaun Regan
Published on 2014 by University of Toronto Press

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 the First World War, the cultural impact of the Seven Years' War remains woefully understudied. The Culture of the Seven Years' War is the first collection of essays to take a broad interdisciplinary and multinational approach to this important global conflict. Rather than focusing exclusively on political, diplomatic, or military issues, this collection examines the impact of representation, identity, and conceptions and experiences of empire. With essays by notable scholars that address the war's impact in Europe and the Atlantic world, this volume is sure to become essential reading for those interested in the relationship between war, culture, and the arts.

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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you do not want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it was meant to be read, then it would have been a novel, not just a play. On top of that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None people had read the play before. None people wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to create me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it can definitely fuck up your GPA. 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