The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence

by S. Max Edelson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674972112
• ISBN13: 9780674972117
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"