Great Britain's conquest of New France in North America and its victory in the Seven Years' War inspired British subjects on both sides of the Atlantic to look forward to a future they could see but through a glass darkly, as they struggled to make sense of the world that lay ahead, and the cost of the war they had won.
Featuring: Fred Anderson, Christian Ayne Crouch, Max Edelson, Kathleen DuVal, Patrick Griffin, and Jon Kukla.
Voice Actors: Norman Roger, Anne Fertig, Nicholas Cole, Spencer McBride, and John Turner.
Narrated by Jim Ambuske.
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Worlds Turned Upside Down is a production of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
12/12/23 • 71 min
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Worlds Turned Upside Down - Episode 4: The Empire
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Isabella Christie was newly wed when she boarded a ship in Scotland bound for British America. In August 1769, she married James Bruce, a naval officer who was a veteran of the Seven Years War. Bruce had land in North America, in a settlements called Pensacola in the new British colony of West Florida. He had 4,000 acres there. They were his reward from the king for his service in the war. Bruce also had a prominent station in life. He was a me
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