S. Max Edelson Books

Max Edelson is a historian specializing in the history of colonial British America and the Atlantic world. He serves as a professor of history at the University of Virginia. His work focuses on a deeper understanding of historical processes and mutual influences within the colonial era. Edelson's research offers a new perspective on the formation of American society and its connection to global history.

The New Map of Empire
480 pages
17 hours of reading
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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 contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain's imperial ambitions before the Revolution.

The New Map of Empire