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Gateways to Empire

Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664

Daniel J. Weeks

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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University Press Copublishing Division / Lehigh University Press
Pages: 472 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-61146-279-1 • Hardback • July 2019 • $160.00 • (£123.00)
Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History / Modern / 17th Century, History / North America
Daniel Weeks is assistant research professor at the Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University.
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
A scholarly, original and well-informed comparison of seventeenth-century New Amsterdam with French Quebec that illuminates each settlement's distinctive features.
— Peter Moogk, The University of British Columbia


Daniel Weeks has provided a stimulating new comparative analysis of why New Amsterdam prospered more than Quebec as outposts for two distinctive empires. His work takes us beyond explanations that begin and end with the fur trade, and he looks more broadly at the Atlantic and regional networks that made both settlements gateway centers for the movement of people, ideas, and consumer goods as well as furs.
— Paul G. E. Clemens, Rutgers University


Gateways to Empire

Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664

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Summary
Summary
  • 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.
Details
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  • University Press Copublishing Division / Lehigh University Press
    Pages: 472 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
    978-1-61146-279-1 • Hardback • July 2019 • $160.00 • (£123.00)
    Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History / Modern / 17th Century, History / North America
Author
Author
  • Daniel Weeks is assistant research professor at the Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University.
Table of Contents
Table of 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
Reviews
Reviews
  • A scholarly, original and well-informed comparison of seventeenth-century New Amsterdam with French Quebec that illuminates each settlement's distinctive features.
    — Peter Moogk, The University of British Columbia


    Daniel Weeks has provided a stimulating new comparative analysis of why New Amsterdam prospered more than Quebec as outposts for two distinctive empires. His work takes us beyond explanations that begin and end with the fur trade, and he looks more broadly at the Atlantic and regional networks that made both settlements gateway centers for the movement of people, ideas, and consumer goods as well as furs.
    — Paul G. E. Clemens, Rutgers University


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