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These are excellent works, and I think there is one other that should be
added to these recent releases:
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The Nation's Nature: How Continental Presumptions Gave Rise to the
United States of America_
James D. Drake
Cloth · 416 pp. · 6.125 x 9.25 · ISBN 9780813931227 · $39.50 · Jul 2011
Ebook · 416 pp. · ISBN 9780813931395 · $39.50 · Jul 2011
http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4202.xml?q=drake
Joel Kovarsky
On 1/8/2012 4:12 PM, Rand Burnette wrote:
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Last fall I received a copy of Martin Bruckner, ed. /Early American
Cartographies/. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press for
the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2011.
The publication of the book was duly noted on the Map History list.
At about the same time, however, another book was also published by
the same press for the same sponsor, which I did not see mentioned.
Paul W. Mapp's /The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire,
1713-1763,/ 455 pp.39 maps, and 4 plates should be of interest to
historians of cartography, especially those concerned with North
America. Part of the dust jacket reads: "A truly continental history
in both its geographic and political scope, /The Elusive West and the
Conquest for Empire/ investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy
involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the
American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from
scholars' traditional focus of the Atlantic world, Paul Mapp
demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions
to early American history." Mapp deals with the Spanish, French,
British and Amerindians ideas about the west, especially the
transMississippi west. The volume is well documented (footnotes at
the bottom of the page, as with the Bruckner volume) with research in
the various archives.
Rand Burnette, Professor Emeritus of History, MacMurray College,
Jacksonville, IL 62650
burne...@mchsi.com <mailto:burne...@mchsi.com>
January 8, 2012
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