Author: Henry Dodwell
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Atlas of the British Empire
Author: Christopher Alan Bayly
Publisher: New York : Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816019953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maps trace the development of the British Empire from 1500 to the present
Publisher: New York : Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816019953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maps trace the development of the British Empire from 1500 to the present
The New Map of Empire
Author: S. Max Edelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972112
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: 0674972112
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.
History of Britain in Maps
Author: Philip Parker
Publisher: Times Books
ISBN: 9780008258344
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
100 maps give a visual representation of the history of Britain. From Mappa Mundi to modern election maps, UK has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which it has been mapped
Publisher: Times Books
ISBN: 9780008258344
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
100 maps give a visual representation of the history of Britain. From Mappa Mundi to modern election maps, UK has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which it has been mapped
the cambridge history of the british empire
Author: Henry Dodwell
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Maps and History
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300086935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Explores the role, development, and nature of the atlas and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300086935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Explores the role, development, and nature of the atlas and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
Author: John Holland Rose
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
British Commerce and Colonies
Author: Henry de Beltgens Gibbins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The British Empire
Author: John Pierson Bulkeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Townhead District Library
Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Townhead district library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
England Under the Hanoverians
Author: Sir Charles Grant Robertson
Publisher: London Methuen [1928]
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher: London Methuen [1928]
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description