Charting the Imperial Will: Colonial Administration & the General Survey of British North America, 1764-1775

• Main Author: Johnson, Alexander James Cook
• Other Authors: Black, Jeremy
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Exeter 2011
• Subjects: Surveying; Cartography; Maps; Colonial America; Canada; Politics; Government Administration; Great Britain; Florida; Maine; Massachusetts; Quebec; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland; New Hampshire; Rhode Island; New York; Whitehall; Hillsborough; Dartmouth; Shelburne; Samuel Holland; William Gerard De Brahm; American Revolution; Forestry; Prince Edward Island; Cape Breton Island; Vermont; New Brunswick; U.S. History; Canadian History; British Imperialism; Breton Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3458

ABSTRACT: CHARTING THE IMPERIAL WILL Colonial Administration & the General Survey of British North America 1764-1775 This dissertation explores how colonial administrators on each side of the Atlantic used the British Survey of North America to serve their governments’ as well as their personal...