The new map of empire : how Britain imagined America before independence
2017
526.097 E21 2017
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Title
The new map of empire : how Britain imagined America before independence
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Description
xiv, 464 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
526.097 E21 2017
System Control No.
(OCoLC)959649917
Note
Includes "Map bibliography": p. 415-442.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-414) and index.
Contents: A vision for American empire -- Commanding space after the Seven Years' War -- Securing the maritime Northeast -- Marking the Indian boundary -- Charting contested Caribbean space -- Defining East Florida -- Atlases of empire.
L2018M36
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 ..--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-414) and index.
Contents: A vision for American empire -- Commanding space after the Seven Years' War -- Securing the maritime Northeast -- Marking the Indian boundary -- Charting contested Caribbean space -- Defining East Florida -- Atlases of empire.
L2018M36
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 ..--Provided by publisher
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