David Dixon. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America.(Book review)

Michigan Historical Review | September 22, 2005| | Copyright

David Dixon. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Pp. 353. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95.

When David Dixon's students challenged him to explain what motivated backcountry settlers to fight in the American Revolution, he was led eventually to a reexamination of Pontiac's Uprising. Like most recent historians, Dixon rejects the idea of a conspiracy hatched by the Ottawa leader, placing the rebellion instead within the larger context of ...

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