This article analyses the John Mitchell's eight-sheet, Map of the British and French Dominions in North America, first published in 1755. This map poses a significant challenge to the traditional approaches to the History of Cartography in which maps are studied according to the regions they depict rather than the contexts within which they were made and used. In particular, we must organize our historical narratives and cartobibliographies around not the regions and places mapped, but rather the contexts within which maps were made and used.
Cartography; John Mitchell; History of Cartography
