The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America   Colin G. Calloway
Another excellent and fascinating history. This one concentrates on the social upheavals caused by the Treaty of Paris in 1763 that ended the Seven Years War. Britain, France, and Spain blithely exchanged territory and people they didn’t really own, and caused more havoc than they ended, particularly the destruction of thousands of years of American Indian nations and the beginnings of the American Revolution. Well researched and engagingly written, couldn’t put it down.