The world in flames : a global history of the Seven Years' War / Marian Füssel ; translated by Brian Hanrahan.
| Author/creator | Füssel, Marian author. |
| Other author | Hanrahan, Brian (Translator), translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Columbia University Press, [2025] |
| Description | viii, 699 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Preis des ruhms. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/7681917e-c0e9-5c4f-d9ef-80a7c4ac1fec |
| Portion of title | Global history of the Seven Years' War |
| Series | Columbia studies in international and global history Columbia studies in international and global history. ^A718629 |
| Contents | A global conflict in close up -- Geopolitics between Reich and empire -- Sparking the flame -- A war without fronts: the German theatre -- 1757: the year of battles -- Everyday life in wartime -- 1758: the fighting spreads -- 1759: annus mirabilis -- As mighty as the sword: the media war -- Urban life in a state of exception -- 1761: new alliance, missed opportunities -- Mosquitoes and monsoons: the grab for Spain's colonies -- A second miracle -- 1763: peace at last -- Outcomes of the war. |
| Abstract | "In the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), two European rivalries -- between England and France and between Prussia and Austria -- collided to spark a global conflagration. In the United States, it is known as the French and Indian War, a precursor to the Revolutionary War. In India, by contrast, it marked a new stage on the path toward British colonial rule. The war saw Spain's decline and Russia's rise; territories from Quebec to the Philippines changed hands. From Europe to the Americas, Africa, and South Asia, people across continents were swept up in clashes that began in faraway places and spread like wildfire. The World in Flames is a bottom-up history of the Seven Years' War, exploring this epochal conflict from the perspective of contemporaries around the globe. Drawing on hundreds of eyewitness accounts, Marian Füssel offers a sweeping portrait of warfare and everyday life during the cataclysm. He vividly narrates battles and sieges from the viewpoints of bakers, generals, and everyone in between, tracing the roles of mercenaries and trading companies as well as regular troops. Füssel emphasizes how contemporaries perceived and understood the global nature of the conflict. At once a media war and an economic war for commodities such as sugar and fur, a war of emerging nationalism and a last religious war, the Seven Years' War was a laboratory of modernity, combining the old world and the new. A groundbreaking, world-spanning microhistory, this book shows us the first truly global military conflict in a new light."-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Original title "Der preis des ruhms: eine Weltgeschichte des Siebenjährigen Krieges" published in 2020. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780231554541 |
| Genre/form | Translations |
| LCCN | 2025011345 |
| ISBN | 9780231202411 |
| ISBN | 9780231202404 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0231202407 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0231202415 trade paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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