Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of EmpireOn the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments. In the first book on the subject in more than forty five years,