Replay: The New Map of Empire

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Replay: The New Map of Empire

June 24, 2019 at 8:00 pm · Filed under Expeditions

Max Edelson talks about the British Board of Trade’s massively ambitious project to explore and survey British America from the St Lawrence River to the islands of the Caribbean. Edelson is a professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence.

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