Full name: The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America

Author: Colin G. Calloway Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780195300710 9780195331271 0195300718 0195331273

In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As the great historian Francis Parkman wrote, half a continent changed hands at the scratch of a pen. As Colin Calloway reveals in this superb history, the Treaty set in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences. Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire stretching from Canada to the Florida Keys, yet the crushing costs of maintaining it would push its colonies toward rebellion. White settlers, free to pour into the West, clashed as never before with Indian tribes struggling to defend their way of life. Similar books: Unsolved Mysteries of American History by Paul Aron That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas Ayres A Short History of the United States by Robert V. Remini The Cycles of American History by Arthur Meier Schlesinger America at 1750 by Richard Hofstadter The Indian World of George Washington by Colin G. Calloway The Birth of the Republic by Edmund S. Morgan The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods Jr. American Colonies by Alan Taylor A Nation Rising by Kenneth C. Davis Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman A New World by Arthur J. Quinn Decision in Philadelphia by Christopher Collier From Colony to Superpower by George C. Herring Revolutionaries by Jack Rakove The Great Rehearsal by Carl Van Doren Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer