Fred Anderson (historian)
Fred Anderson (* 1949 ) is an American historian. He deals with American colonial history.
Anderson graduated from Colorado State University with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1981 with Bernard Bailyn . He taught at Harvard (as a lecturer from 1981 to 1983) and is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder .
Anderson was a Guggenheim Fellow .
Fonts
- Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (received the Mark Lynton History Prize , the Colorado Book Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize )
- with Andrew Cayton : The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 , Viking 2005
- The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War , Viking 2005 (companion book to the PBS television series The War that made America (2006) about the Indian Wars)
- A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War , University of North Carolina Press 1984 (received the Jamestown Prize)
He is scheduled with Andrew Cayton as the author of Volume 2 of the Oxford History of the United States reissue ( Imperial America, 1674–1764 ).
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| SURNAME | Anderson, Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |