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Edelson, S. Max.
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Cartography -- America -- History -- 18th century.
Surveying -- America -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration.
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Edelson, S. Max.
Cartography -- America -- History -- 18th century.
Surveying -- America -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration.
MARC Display
The
new
map
of
empire
:
how
Britain
imagined
America
before
independence
/ S. Max Edelson.
by
Edelson, S. Max.
Harvard University Press, 2017.
Call #:
526.097 E21n
Subjects
Cartography --
America
-- History -- 18th century.
Surveying --
America
-- History -- 18th century.
Great
Britain
-- Colonies --
America
-- Administration.
URL856
Online maps discussed in this book.
ISBN:
9780674972117 (hc.)
Description:
xiv, 464 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references 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
.
Summary:
"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. S. Max Edelson 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 history of British
America
are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts. S. Max Edelson is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia"--Provided by publisher.
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