Daniel J. Weeks

Gateways to Empire

Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664 by Daniel Weeks is the first comprehensive comparative study of the North American fur-trading colonies New France and New Netherland. Weeks traces the evolution of Quebec and New Amsterdam from hubs for trade with the Indians to gateways for European settlement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lehigh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 829g
• ISBN-13: 9781611462791
• ISBN-10: 1611462797
• Artikelnr.: 56405488

Autorenporträt

Daniel J. Weeks

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reconnaissance and the Shaping of Colonial Policy
Chapter 2: First Attempts at Settlement in New France
Chapter 3: Building the Network: Champlain on the St. Lawrence
Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Staking a Claim-New Netherland
Chapter 5: Building the Network-New Netherland
Chapter 6: The Fur Trade-the Dominant Flow?
Chapter 7: Native-American Networks, Flows of Disease, and the Fur Trade
Chapter 8: Flows of People
Chapter 9: Flows of Ideas
Conclusion: The Diffuse and Specific Networks of New Amsterdam and Quebec
Bibliography
About the Author