The Duke of York's prize — hemmed in for a century by the Iroquois to the west and New France to the north.
Became a U.S. state in 1776; absorbed nearly all Iroquois lands by 1797.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for New York — the shape you scrub through changes in 1664 · 1701 · 1750 · 1768.
The Dutch colony of Manhattan whose 1664 conquest created the Duke of York's New York.
New York hemmed between the Iroquois and New France in the broader colonial story (broad context).
Covers New York as the pivot of Iroquois diplomacy and the Seven Years' War contest with New France — the two defining pressures on the colony named in its blurb.