War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 360. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $32.00.
In the 240 years since Native Americans launched a series of attacks on British military posts and settlers in the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley region, a number of historians have attempted to understand the conflict. Gregory Evans Dowd's War under Heaven places new emphasis on the old story of the misnamed ...