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Cover: Top left, Benjamin West, 
Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, 

177 1—1772, courtesy of the


Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. 
Gift 

of Mrs. Sarah Harrison (The


Joseph Harrrison, Jr. Collection). Bottom right, Emanuel Bowen, 
A New and Accurate Map


of Mexico or New Spain Together with California, 
1760, courtesy of the Special Collections,


University of Arizona Library.



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America, 

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