TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mapp,Paul W.
AU  - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
TI  - The elusive West and the contest for empire, 1713-1763 /Paul W. Mapp
SN  - 9781469600987
AV  - E46 .E487 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The Spanish empire and the elusive West. Peoples and terrain, difficulties and disappointments --; Exploiting indigenous geographic understanding --; South sea interlude. The alluring Pacific ocean --; The Pacific ocean and the war of the Spanish succession --; France and the elusive West after the treaty of Utrecht. Visions of Western Louisiana --; Imperial comparisons --; Communication and interpretation --; Restricted pathways --; British Pacific adventures and the early years of the seven years' war. British designs on the Spanish empire, 1713-1748 --; French reactions to the British search for a northwest passage from Hudson Bay and the origins of the seven years' war --; Spanish reactions to British Pacific encroachments, 1750-1757 --; French borderlands encroachments and Spanish neutrality --; The elusive West and the outcome of the seven years' war --; French geographic conceptions and the 1762 Western Louisiana cession --; Spain's acceptance of Trans-Mississippi Louisiana --; Old visions and new opportunities: Britain and the Spanish empire at the end of the seven years' war; 2; b
N2  - 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
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