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The New Map of Empire

How Britain Imagined America before Independence

S. Max Edelson

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ISBN 9780674972117

Publication Date: 04/24/2017

480 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

7 maps

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S. Max Edelson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

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On the early American history podcast Ben Franklin’s World, listen to Max Edelson describe how the British coped with the prospect of governing the hugely expanded territory they titularly held in North America after the Seven Years’ War—an area stretching to the Mississippi River in the west, from the Hudson Bay to Florida, and including four new islands in the Caribbean
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Finalist, 2018 George Washington Prize, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens

2017 John Lyman Book Award (U.S. Maritime History Category), North American Society for Oceanic History

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