Michael McDonnell is an associate professor of history at the University of Sydney. He is the author of THE POLITICS OF WAR: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, winner of the 2008 New South Wales Premier's History Prize, and coeditor of REMEMBERING THE REVOLUTION: Memory, History, and Nation-Making from Independence to the Civil War. His work was included in the BEST AMERICAN HISTORY ESSAYS 2008 and he won the Lester Cappon Prize for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2006. He has received numerous research scholarships and grants in the United States and Australia and has served as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Books by Michael A. McDonnell

Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

by Michael A. McDonnell - History, Nonfiction

In MASTERS OF EMPIRE, the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux, the Anishinaabeg, who lived across Lakes Michigan and Huron, were equally influential. The book charts the story of one group, the Odawa, who settled at the straits between those two lakes, a hub for trade and diplomacy throughout the vast country west of Montreal known as the pays d’en haut.