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• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 43,5 Mb
• Release Date : 24 April 2017

In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 51,8 Mb
• Release Date : 09 July 2020

During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories.

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• File Size : 55,5 Mb
• Release Date : 05 April 2011

Using research from both sides of the Atlantic, Stephen Hornsby examines the development of British military cartography in North America during and after the Seven Years War, as well as

• Publisher : New Society Publishers
• File Size : 46,7 Mb
• Release Date : 13 August 2002

Today's global economy is yesterday's empire. Imperialism in whatever guise is the same through time, penetrating every area of our lives, affecting whole cultures as well as the deep core

• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• File Size : 40,9 Mb
• Release Date : 19 February 2019

Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 33,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2009

Maps from virtually every culture and period convey our tendency to see our communities as the centre of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as superior to

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 February 2009

In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 08 July 2022

Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits’ significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World. In 1540, in the wake of the tumult

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 52,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 December 2016

It's the year 2465, two hundred years since the stars were opened to humanity by the invention of the shift drive. So began the First Interstellar Expansion Era, catapulting humanity into

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 52,7 Mb
• Release Date : 26 September 2023

A compelling reexamination of how Britain used law to shape its empire For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common