Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. I The Experience of Empire in the Seven Years’ War
7. 1 From Vernon to Wolfe: Empire and Identity in the British Atlantic World of the Mid-Eighteenth Century 25
8. 2 1759 – Year of Decision? 53
9. 3 Colonial Disease, Translation, and Enlightenment: Franco-British Medicine and the Seven Years’ War 69
10. 4 “Under His Majesty’s Protection”: The Meaning of the Conquest for the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada 91
11. II Imagining Conflict: Literature and the War
12. 5 Paper Wars: Literature and/as Conflict during the Seven Years’ War 119
13. 6 Shakespeare, Voltaire, and the Seven Years’ War: Literary Criticism as Cultural Battlefield 147
14. 7 “What d’ye call him, Tierconneldrago …”: Oliver Goldsmith and the Seven Years’ War 169
15. III Individuals and Identities: Status, Gender, and Race
16. 8 The View from St James’s Palace in 1759: A Court Perspective on the Annus Mirabilis 191
17. 9 “Unfit to Serve”: Honour, Masculinity, and the Fate of Lord George Sackville 213
18. 10 Olaudah Equiano and the Seven Years’ War: Slavery, Service, and the Sea 235
19. IV Empire and the Arts
20. 11 Setting the Empire in Stone: Commemorating Wolfe in the Gardens at Stowe 259
21. 12 George Stubbs’s The Zebra and the Spectacle of Fine Art at the End of the Seven Years’ War 284
22. 13 Facing Past and Future Empires: Joshua Reynolds’s Portraits of Augustus Keppel 307
23. Notes on Contributors 339
24. Index 343