Reviews for Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763

The average rating for Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-10 00:00:00 Paul Zahodnik My 2nd grade son randomly checked this out of the school library, so we took the opportunity to read it. It was very dense, but the pictures were very detailed, well-labeled, and he had a great time really getting into the pictures, asking a million questions about all kinds of details. We learned the overall picture -- who was fighting, some of the reasons why, how the Native Americans engaged and why, why different areas of North America have differing cultural backgrounds, how brutal and hard these times were. I really appreciated that they mentioned that "not all were free" during the colonial era and introduced slavery a bit, the broken promises of colonists to the Native Americans, the kidnapping of Native people for slavery in the West Indies, and the way that colonialism disrupted the lives of Native people. We had engaging dinner table conversations about the history, wilderness fighting vs traditional European battle styles, and oppression through white imperialism. Great book!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-30 00:00:00 Mike Ibison I read this to see if it was going to be useful for my 8th grader this year. I originally chose it because I thought it was going to have more of a picture book feel to it so I could use it as a read aloud with the younger ones too, but the readability of it was more similar to a textbook. The pictures in it were fantastic, but I think that the writing could have been a bit more narrative to go along with the picture book feel that I got from the cover. It covers all the important information that my 8th grader needed this year. I thought it started out a bit dry/slow, but by the end I found it quite an enjoyable read. It was a great refresher of The French and Indian War (plus other battles before the "official" one). My 13 year old, however, said it was too long.