The Fault Lines of Empire
Subtitle: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1760-1830 (New World in the Atlantic World)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 30, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780415950015
First sentence: As the French made their last defenses of New France in the late 1750s and early 1760s, New Englanders, who had long fought them, believed that the end of French influence in North America would open for settlement a band of land stretching from eastern New York across Vermont and New Hampshire and out to the Atlantic in Maine and Nova Scotia.