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This series introduces short stories about major events and historical figures. Each book in this series studies certain past moments and focuses on how individuals form the process of events and place them in a wider historical context, Handle a problem or topic. Many themes are well known, but these books provide new explanations based on new sources, new ideas or new combinations. This series is aimed at combining the old and new history and combining the insights and techniques of modern historical studies with the power of traditional stories.

In Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments collection Colin Calloway revealed how the Paris Convention of 1763 had a major influence on American history. New boundaries, new alliances, efforts to adapt to new relationships. The UK currently has a huge American empire that extends from Canada to the Florida Keys, but maintaining its huge cost will put its colony in rebellion. Caucasian settlers flood freely in the west, and in Indian tribes the Indian tribes are trying to preserve their way of life in an unprecedented conflict. In Northwest Territory, the Pontiac war made ethnic conflict the worst level to date. In 1763, many exiles living in Arcadia of France moved to Louisiana again, where they became Kazan people.

Pen wounds: transformation in North America in 1763 (a critical moment in American history)

This autumn is the 60th anniversary of this important moment in the history of American national struggle. This moment provides the opportunity to test the depth and contour of the isolation of today's country, as the political situation seems to be split as before. Despite the remarkable progress since the civil rights movement, increasingly conservative social policy has developed over the past half century, and it is clarifying how important this progress is. Over the past 40 years, the isolation of American cities has become increasingly high, ethnic differences between the white community and the colored people are sustainingly increasing. Reclassification of such systems has a profound impact on access to medical services, education, and wealth accumulation.