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A fleeting empire : early Stuart Britain and the merchant adventurers to Canada /
Before the future of North American rule was decided by the battle between British and French forces on the Plains of Abraham, Britain's emerging imperial interests were represented by ambitious merchants and privateers. A Fleeting Empire examines the lives and exploits of early European advent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal ; Ithaca, NY :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Huron Mission and the promise of New France
- Early English and British expeditions in the North Atlantic Theatre
- King James VI/I and the challenge of Anglo-Scottish co-operation
- The poet courtier : Sir William Alexander and his charter
- The paper Colony : Charles's privateers and the proxy war
- The demands of honour and Charles I's unfolding strategy
- A man of controversy : James Stewart of Killeith, fourth Lord Ochiltree
- Mixed motives and the company of merchant adventurers to Canada
- Shifting loyalties and the case of the embezzled furs
- Lord Ochiltree's Gamble and the abandonment of Port Royal
- The treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the end of a partnership.