Adventurism and empire : the struggle for mastery in the Louisiana-Florida borderlands, 1762-1803
2015
976.02 N225 2015
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Title
Adventurism and empire : the struggle for mastery in the Louisiana-Florida borderlands, 1762-1803
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Description
xii, 375 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
976.02 N225 2015
System Control No.
(OCoLC)875742372
Note
"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-364) and index.
Contents: Part I. Struggles for empire in peace and war, 1762-1787 -- Prologue: the open and hidden features of peace: Louisiana, Florida, and the imperial settlement of 1762-1763 -- Maritime and interior colony: beginnings of British West Florida, 1763-1766 -- The conundrum of "Spanish-French" Louisiana: British imperialism and the Mississippi-Gulf frontier, 1766-1775 -- Opening salvos in a Revolutionary War, 1776-1779 -- Multiple conflicts: warfare and a disputed peace, 1779-1783 -- Bidding and conspiring for access to the realm, 1783-1787 -- Part II. New empires, new republics, 1787-1803 -- Prologue: Wilkinson and the imperial self -- License to venture: colonization and commercial adventurism -- Frontier separatism and integration -- Conspiracies and international turmoil -- Intrigues across Creek Country and beyond -- The imperial question at century's end -- Conclusion: the impermanence of boundaries.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-364) and index.
Contents: Part I. Struggles for empire in peace and war, 1762-1787 -- Prologue: the open and hidden features of peace: Louisiana, Florida, and the imperial settlement of 1762-1763 -- Maritime and interior colony: beginnings of British West Florida, 1763-1766 -- The conundrum of "Spanish-French" Louisiana: British imperialism and the Mississippi-Gulf frontier, 1766-1775 -- Opening salvos in a Revolutionary War, 1776-1779 -- Multiple conflicts: warfare and a disputed peace, 1779-1783 -- Bidding and conspiring for access to the realm, 1783-1787 -- Part II. New empires, new republics, 1787-1803 -- Prologue: Wilkinson and the imperial self -- License to venture: colonization and commercial adventurism -- Frontier separatism and integration -- Conspiracies and international turmoil -- Intrigues across Creek Country and beyond -- The imperial question at century's end -- Conclusion: the impermanence of boundaries.
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