War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire

Honorable Mention from the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards for History

The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded much of the continent east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, a claim which the Indian nations of the Great Lakes, who suddenly found themselves under British rule, considered outrageous. Unlike the French, with whom Great Lakes Indians had formed an alliance of convenience, the British entered the upper Great Lakes in a spirit of conquest. B...