id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 5h73pv66409 Garrett Andrew Fontenot Voluntarism and Imperial Supremacy: Politics and the Military Establishment in the Expansion of the British Empire in French North America, 1760-1775 1904 .txt text/plain 227 5 15 This dissertation explores the tensions between two ideological facets of the British empire—voluntarism and imperial supremacy—that emerged after the Seven Years' War as British officials attempted to come to terms with the territorial expansion and the increased diversity of their empire. At the same time, the empire pursued a policy of imperial supremacy in North America: a deliberate attempt to exclude foreign competitors from the continent to ensure the security of the provinces. cache/5h73pv66409.txt txt/5h73pv66409.txt