The new map of empire : how Britain imagined America before independence
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territori...
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | The new map of empire : how Britain imagined America before independence / S. Max Edelson |
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Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] :
Harvard university press
, 2017 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XIV-464 p.) |
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Documents associés : | Reproduit comme:
The New Map of Empire En relation avec: The New Map of Empire |
- Introduction
- A vision for American empire
- Commanding space after the Seven Years' War
- Securing the maritime Northeast
- Marking the Indian boundary
- Charting contested Caribbean space
- Defining East Florida
- Atlases of empire