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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
In English
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