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"Here is a history of the Hudson-Champlain Valley, a borderland between Albany, New York, and Montreal, Canada, which Britain and France struggled to control from 1660 to 1760. This was the era of the much-neglected colonial wars, a series of conflicts in which the European powers sought to dominate the eastern part of North America. Corbett brings to life borderland conditions, which ignored formal European military objectives and emphasized peaceful interaction between the combatants, from the creation of villages to the exchange of captives and slaves. Instead of completely focusing on battles, Corbett finds locations along this corridor where Native Americans and Europeans regularly came into contact, where despite competition, no group dominated..." - OCLC