Autor: Richard Middleton

RICHARD MIDDLETON was for many years head of the American Studies department at Queen»s University, Belfast. He is the author of several books, including The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years» War, 1757-1762 (1985) and Pontiac»s War: Its Causes, Course and Consequences, 1763-1765 (2007). Now retired, Middleton is currently working on a book about the American War of Independence. ANNE LOMBARD is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos. She is the author of Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England (2003). Her current research examines riots and other forms of collective violence by white men in British America during the eighteenth century.