Name: Britain's Wilderness Frontier : North American Borderlands, 1748-1775 by Oliphant, John
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Author: Oliphant, John

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Published on 15 October 2025 by Amberley Publishing in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 288 pages, 8 Plates, colour
234 x 156 |

How and with what prospect of success do empires manage their distant lands? In times of relative calm and security these questions hardly arise: in the early eighteenth-century British governments treated their colonies, and their frontiers, with salutary neglect’.

By 1748, matters were dramatically different in North America. Settler intrusion into Native American lands, apparently unfettered by provincial governments and encouraged by speculators, alongside perceived French advances, threatened to engulf the whole region in a disastrous war. Quarrelsome colonies proved unable to co-operate in self-defence, forcing ministers to centralise control of Indian and military policy. This programme, undertaken with inadequate resources and in the face

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Britain’s Wilderness Frontier : North American Borderlands, 1748-1775 by Oliphant, John