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The New Map of Empire : How Britain Imagined America before Independence / S. Max Edelson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674972117
  • 9780674979017
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 526.097/09033
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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 Britain's imperial ambitions before the Revolution.
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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

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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 Britain's imperial ambitions before the Revolution.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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