Author: Pan American Union
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The New Map of Empire
Author: S. Max Edelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674978994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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. Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida’s rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces—their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce—and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic. Britain’s vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London’s mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented. Accompanying Edelson’s innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674978994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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. Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida’s rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces—their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce—and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic. Britain’s vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London’s mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented. Accompanying Edelson’s innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.
Cuba
Author: Pan American Union
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Cuba
Author: Gonzalo de Quesada
Publisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
Doubleday, Page & Co.'s Geographical Manual and New Atlas
Author: Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
Publisher:
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora
Author: Christopher David Preston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198510673
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198510673
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents
Author:
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, with a New Atlas of the World: The Century atlas of the world, prepared under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith
Author:
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Harvard University Bulletin
Author: Harvard University
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Harvard University Bulletin
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Bulletin of More Important Accessions with Bibliographical Contributions
Author: Justin Winsor
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description