The elusive West and the contest for empire, 1713-1763 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mapp, Paul W.
Corporate Author:	Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format:	Book
Language:	English French Spanish
Language Notes:	Includes some text in French and Spanish.
Published:	Chapel Hill : Williamsburg, Va. : University of North Carolina Press ; Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, [2011]
Subjects:	North America > Colonization. West (U.S.) > Colonization. North America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish. North America > Discovery and exploration > British. North America > Discovery and exploration > French. North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 > Causes. Imperialism > History > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

The Spanish empire and the elusive West. Peoples and terrain, difficulties and disappointments
Exploiting indigenous geographic understanding
South sea interlude. The alluring Pacific ocean
The Pacific ocean and the war of the Spanish succession
France and the elusive West after the treaty of Utrecht. Visions of Western Louisiana
Imperial comparisons
Communication and interpretation
Restricted pathways
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
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.