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