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Gateways to Empire - Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664 (Hardcover)
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Gateways to Empire - Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664 (Hardcover)
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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.
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