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100 1 _aMapp, Paul W.
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245 1 0 _aThe elusive West and the contest for empire, 1713-1763 /Paul W. Mapp.
260 _aChapel Hill :
_bUniversity of North Carolina Press ;
_c(c)2011.
260 _bPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,
_c(c)2011.
300 _a1 online resource (ix, 455 pages) :
_billustrations, maps.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aThe Spanish empire and the elusive West. Peoples and terrain, difficulties and disappointments --
_tExploiting indigenous geographic understanding --
_tSouth sea interlude. The alluring Pacific ocean --
_tThe Pacific ocean and the war of the Spanish succession --
_tFrance and the elusive West after the treaty of Utrecht. Visions of Western Louisiana --
_tImperial comparisons --
_tCommunication and interpretation --
_tRestricted pathways --
_tBritish Pacific adventures and the early years of the seven years' war. British designs on the Spanish empire, 1713-1748 --
_tFrench reactions to the British search for a northwest passage from Hudson Bay and the origins of the seven years' war --
_tSpanish reactions to British Pacific encroachments, 1750-1757 --
_tFrench borderlands encroachments and Spanish neutrality --
_tThe elusive West and the outcome of the seven years' war --
_tFrench geographic conceptions and the 1762 Western Louisiana cession --
_tSpain's acceptance of Trans-Mississippi Louisiana --
_tOld visions and new opportunities: Britain and the Spanish empire at the end of the seven years' war.
530 _a2
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520 8 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aImperialism
_xHistory
_y18th century.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=532726&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell