Book Reviews 131 Alexian Brothers' Novitiate in Gresham, just outside the boundaries of the Menominee reservation. Although they were independent of the tribal government, theWarriors were acting inwhat they believed were the best interests of theMenominee people, and for more than amonth they engaged in an armed standoff with local residents, local law enforcement, and the National Guard. Although Beck does include a brief narrative of the Gresham takeover in early 1975, the extent to which the self-invented "Menominee Warrior Society" action divided the tribe is an important piece of the post-termination story. And he should have more fully described how the 1975 takeover and its aftermath continue to define an adversarial relationship between the Menominee and whites in and around Shawano County today. The takeover should be more closely linked to the historic issue of defining an Indian place rather than to matters such as termination and restoration or tribal or federal politics. But this criticism isminor and more than anything reflects the dearth of scholarship on the 1975 takeover. On the whole, this is a well-researched, clearly documented, and expertly written piece of scholarship on an underappreciated and litde-known case study in the history of Indian activism in the United States. The maps and illustrations serve to round out this exemplary study ofWisconsin's Menonimees. If anything, Beck's tide, The Struggle for Self Determination, is something of an understatement. The Menominees survived the treaty period, protected the best resources for themselves, avoided allotment, reorganized in the 1930s, endured termination, successfully petitioned for restoration, and restructured their tribal government in the 1970s and 1980s. The tribe remains an economic and political force in Wisconsin and the United States. Here is a case study in active agency? a work that successfully moves beyond the study of Indian history as one of victimization and violence. Anthony G. Gulig University ofWisconsin-Whitewater Walter R. Borneman. The French <&Indian War: Dedding theFate of North America. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Pp. 384. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $27.95. The Seven Years' War, the pivotal eighteenth-century imperial conflict for North America, has been the subject of a flurry of scholarship in recent decades. Walter Borneman has added to this body 132 Michigan Historical Review of work with an artfully written volume that will appeal to general readers, students, and scholars alike. Though the Seven Years' War was a global conflict, Borneman chooses to focus on its North American component?the same focus, he argues, that British Prime Minister William Pitt had in conducting the war. Thus, he traces the familiar blunders and missed opportunities of British military leaders in early encounters, such as Edward Braddock's rout at the Monongahela, the "massacre" at Fort William Henry, and James Abercromby's unwise frontal assault on Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga). With the eventual selection of more capable leaders, such as James Wolfe and Jeffery Amherst, Pitt's desire to drive the French from North America became a reality with the capture of Louisburg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 and then the capitulation of Montreal in 1760. Intercolonial squabbles and competition, as well as incipient colonial cooperation, are mentioned here as well. Borneman rightfully includes the erroneously named Pontiac's Rebellion as a continuance of the war, and concludes with an all-too-brief summary of the war's consequences. Borneman's narrative is a fine read, but it is a bit parochial in focus, thus reinforcing the American tendency to view colonial history from a North American viewpoint rather than as part of a larger global process. He attempts to rectify this with brief forays into military actions in the Caribbean and European politics as well as what amounts to an honorable mention of the Indian theater of war. However, The French <& Indian War, as indicated by its tide, dwells on the struggle for North America, as opposed to the more global Seven Years' War. For the broader context, readers should turn to Fred Anderson's The Crudhle of War or Lawrence Gipson's multivolume The British Empire before the American Revolution. Of course, it is easy to criticize a book for what it does not do. What Borneman does accomplish, and very successfully, is to mold the complex scholarship and history of this great conflict into a colorful narrative, flush with biographies and graphic batde accounts, that brings the subject matter alive and thus will appeal to a wide audience. Those left wanting more can peruse Borneman's bibliography, which lists the best scholarship on the subject, and browse to their hearts' content. David M. Corlett The College ofWilliam and Mary ...