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Approaches to Empire: Hydrographic Knowledge and British State Activity in Northeastern North America, 1711-1783
(2012-12-13)This dissertation studies the intersection of knowledge, culture, and power in contested coastal and estuarine space in eighteenth-century northeastern North America. It examines the interdependence of vernacular pilot ...