The elusive West and the contest for empire, 1713-1763 /
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Chapel Hill : Williamsburg, Va. :
University of North Carolina Press ; Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The Spanish empire and the elusive West
- Peoples and terrain, difficulties and disappointments
- Exploiting indigenous geographic understanding
- Part II: South sea interlude
- The alluring Pacific ocean
- The Pacific ocean and the war of the Spanish succession
- Part III: France and the elusive West after the treaty of Utrecht
- Visions of Western Louisiana
- Imperial comparisons
- Communication and interpretation
- Restricted pathways
- Part IV: 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
- Part V: 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.