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: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Language notes: | In English. |
Imprint: | Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017] |
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
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. 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 territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson's The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain's imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution. |
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Item Description: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017). |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0674972112 067497901X 9780674972117 9780674979017 |