The Seven Years' War

• List of Figures
• p. vii

• Acknowledgements
• p. ix

• List of Contributors
• p. xvii

• Introduction: The 'Problem' of the Seven Years' War
• p. xxiii

• 1
• Frederick the Great and the First 'World' War
• p. 1

• 2
• "To Encourage the Others": The Philosophes and the War
• p. 23

• 3
• Understanding Native American Alliances
• p. 47

• 4
• The War in the Carnatic
• p. 73

• 5
• Religious War or Imperial War? Views of the Seven Years' War from Germany and Rome
• p. 107

• 6
• Sweden and the Pomeranian War
• p. 135

• 7
• The Ottoman Absence from the Battlefields of the Seven Years' War
• p. 165

• 8
• Pride, Prejudice and Prestige: French Officers in North America during the Seven Years' War
• p. 191

• 9
• Battre l'estrade: Military Reconnaissance in the German Theatre of War
• p. 213

• 10
• "Féroces et barbares?" Cossacks, Kalmyks and Russian Irregular Warfare during the Seven Years' War
• p. 243

• 11
• The Seven Years' War in West Africa: The End of Company Rule and the Emergence of the Habitants
• p. 263

• 12
• The War in the West Indies
• p. 293

• 13
• The Anglo-Cherokee War, 1759-1761
• p. 325

• 14
• The British Political Press and Military Thought during the Seven Years' War
• p. 359

• 15
• The War in Bengal
• p. 399

• 16
• Strategic Illusions and the Iberian War of 1762
• p. 429

• 17
• The British Expedition to Manila
• p. 461

• 18
• The End of the Seven Years' War in Germany
• p. 487

• Conclusion: Father of the Modem Age
• p. 519

• Selected Bibliography
• p. 537

• Index
• p. 549