- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
In Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664, historian Daniel Weeks has provided the first comprehensive comparative study of the North-American fur-trading colonies New France and New Netherland. While neither colony profited very much, if at all, from the fur trade (though many individuals fortunes were undoubtedly made), Weeks finds that New France, which far outpaced New Netherland in this trade, grew more slowly and had greater difficulty sustaining itself. As he demonstrates in Gateways to Empire, other factors, including New Netherland's openness to religious and ethnic diversity and wider connections to the Atlantic World, allowed it to become more economically secure than its rival north of the St. Lawrence. And yet, in both cases, the principal towns of these European colonies—Quebec and New Amsterdam—moved beyond their initial purposes as hubs for trade with the indigenous peoples to become gateways to European settlement. In this, New Amsterdam, by the late 1640s, was singularly successful, so that it rapidly fostered the production of new European towns in its hinterlands, organizing the landscape for settlement and also for trade within the European-dominated Atlantic-World system.
Contents
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
