Adventurism and empire the struggle for mastery in the Louisiana-Florida borderlands, 1762 - 1803
Part I. Struggles for empire in peace and war, 1762-1787Prologue: the open and hidden features of peace: Louisiana, Florida, and the imperial settlement of 1762-1763 -- Maritime and interior colony: beginnings of British West Florida, 1763-1766 -- The conundrum of "Spanish-French" Louisian...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chapel Hill, NC
<<The>> University of North Carolina Press
2015
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West Florida / History
> Louisiana / History / To 1803
> Florida / History / To 1821
> Gulf States / History / To 1803
> United States / Foreign relations / Spain
> Spain / Foreign relations / United States
> Borderlands / United States / History / 18th century
> USA
> Florida
> Louisiana
> Grenzgebiet
> Spanien
> Geschichte 1762-1803
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| Zusammenfassung: | Part I. Struggles for empire in peace and war, 1762-1787Prologue: the open and hidden features of peace: Louisiana, Florida, and the imperial settlement of 1762-1763 -- Maritime and interior colony: beginnings of British West Florida, 1763-1766 -- The conundrum of "Spanish-French" Louisiana: British imperialism and the Mississippi-Gulf frontier, 1766-1775 -- Opening salvos in a Revolutionary War, 1776-1779 -- Multiple conflicts: warfare and a disputed peace, 1779-1783 -- Bidding and conspiring for access to the realm, 1783-1787 -- Part II. New empires, new republics, 1787-1803 -- Prologue: Wilkinson and the imperial self -- License to venture: colonization and commercial adventurism -- Frontier separatism and integration -- Conspiracies and international turmoil -- Intrigues across Creek Country and beyond -- The imperial question at century's end -- Conclusion: the impermanence of boundaries. Part I. Struggles for empire in peace and war, 1762-1787 -- Prologue: the open and hidden features of peace: Louisiana, Florida, and the imperial settlement of 1762-1763 -- Maritime and interior colony: beginnings of British West Florida, 1763-1766 -- The conundrum of "Spanish-French" Louisiana: British imperialism and the Mississippi-Gulf frontier, 1766-1775 -- Opening salvos in a Revolutionary War, 1776-1779 -- Multiple conflicts: warfare and a disputed peace, 1779-1783 -- Bidding and conspiring for access to the realm, 1783-1787 -- Part II. New empires, new republics, 1787-1803 -- Prologue: Wilkinson and the imperial self -- License to venture: colonization and commercial adventurism -- Frontier separatism and integration -- Conspiracies and international turmoil -- Intrigues across Creek Country and beyond -- The imperial question at century's end -- Conclusion: the impermanence of boundaries |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-364) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 375 S. Ill., Kt. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781469618333 |