"Why the French & Indian War is Worth Remembering" by Dr. Fred Anderson

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"Why the French & Indian War is Worth Remembering, The Ironies of a Decisive Victory"
Histories of the American Revolution tend to start in 1763, the end of the Seven Years’ War, a worldwide struggle for empire that pitted France against England in North America, Europe, and Asia. Among its surprising results was the disruption of the British empire as a political system; indeed, within a dozen years that empire fell into the civil war that produced in the American Revolution. Fred Anderson, Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will seek to explain the significance of the American phase of the Seven Years’ War - commonly called the French and Indian War -- in American history, affirming that the best way to understand the Revolution is as part of a 40-year-long attempt to assert imperial control over the Forks of the Ohio, where Pittsburgh now stands. He will argue in favor of the perhaps surprising proposition that winning an imperial war in a decisive way may ultimately carry consequences more harmful to the victor than the vanquished.
Length: 70 Minutes
Lecture Date: April 16, 2008

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27 июл 2014

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Комментарии : 13

@markfortin3502 5 лет назад

An enjoyable, lucid, well thought analysis of the French and Indian War. Easily, the most enjoyable essay on this list so far, both in content and delivery. The turn on Forbes was most enlightening. Such a joy to have a historian truly make a 200 year old conflict relevant and compelling.

@olyvoyl9382 2 года назад

An excellent and enlightening lecture. Quite a unique point of view that is worth listening to.

@delhatton 4 года назад

Fascinating

@JB-uv4hm 3 года назад

When will Anderson’s Imperial America (Oxford Series) be published? Anderson is a master historian. His “Seven Years” is Pulitzer worthy.

@23drcharles 5 лет назад

Brillant analysis of the struggle for Empire in North America. Professor Anderson brings new meaning to "North American Graveyard of Empires". The French and Indian war was the end of the French Empire; The American Revolution was the end of the British empire; The Mexican-American War was the end of the Spanish Empire and the ultimate irony was the American Empire collapses in the Civil War.

@flamedestroyer6 5 лет назад

The American Revolution did not signify the end of the British Empire and Mexico had already broken off from Spain by the time of the US-Mexican War.

@quintonbroster2994 3 года назад

Cobblers

@johnnotrealname8168 3 года назад

The American Empire grew after the Second American Civil War. Remember The Spanish-American War? The French still had an Empire, one that grew in size over the next Century.

@johnnotrealname8168 3 года назад

@ball bust How is it wrong? Also he was talking about the American perspective.

@johnnotrealname8168 3 года назад

That awkward moment you prevent States from Edit: "seceding" from the Union, WHEN THE WHOLE POINT IS THAT THEY ARE ALLOWED TO SECEDE WHENEVER THEY WANT!!! Just as a note the Confederates would have likely been forced by the English and French to stop slavery.

@jebstuart1475 6 лет назад

The French and Indian Wars is the sort of war Americans wanted to forget because it was largely a guerilla war with dire consequences to the civilian population. The US military establishment also wished to develop into a Napoleonic force, a "People's Army's" without guerilla warfare that haunted the American frontier into the 20th century expressed in Indian War, There is constipation and guilt over the "Indian" aspect. Revisionists wish to redefine the war as a colonialist war that exemplifies the absolute worse in Christian capitalist values. Hence if it is to be remembered at all it is not to learn how to move the sticks on the path toward greater liberties and equality through individual empowerment but to take a knee during the playing of the National Anthem. Liberals always seek to degrade belief in progress from the traditional belief in America to one that has been surpassed by modern socialism.

@jinmivin1 Год назад

BO-RING!

@jimlaguardia8185 Год назад

Sorry, Fred, but no airplanes flew into the WTC, but if you said that, this video would not exist. See what engineers have to say about 9/11: the story feed to us by your bosses is physically impossible.