Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country Volume 71

by Ian K. Steele

Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773541845
• ISBN13: 9780773541849
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 708 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"