The New Map of Empire : How Britain Imagined America before Independence /
In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Brit...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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| Accès en ligne: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2242379 |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- A Note on the Maps
- Introduction
- 1. A Vision for American Empire
- 2. Commanding Space after the Seven Years' War
- 3. Securing the Maritime Northeast
- 4. Marking the Indian Boundary
- 5. Charting Contested Caribbean Space
- 6. Defining East Florida
- 7. Atlases of Empire
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Map Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index