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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788487203321

Autore

Mapp Paul W.

Titolo

The elusive West and the contest for empire, 1713-1763 / / Paul W. Mapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

979-88-908780-9-0

0-8078-3894-2

1-4696-0098-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 455 p.) : ill., maps

Disciplina

970.01

Soggetti

Imperialism - History - 18th century

Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 - Causes

North America Colonization

West (U.S.) Colonization

North America Discovery and exploration Spanish

North America Discovery and exploration British

North America Discovery and exploration French

North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope. The book investigates 18th-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs.