Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The discoveries
  • 2. The foundations of English bullionism
  • 3. The foundations of French bullionism
  • 4. The aftermath of the discoveries
  • 5. The origins of the English plantation system
  • 6. The origins of the French plantation system
  • 7. Competition for empire, 1663-1713
  • 8. France in America, 1713-1763
  • 9. Competition for empire, 1713-1763
  • 10. The triumph and collapse of British mercantilism
  • 11. The industrial revolution and the colonial system
  • 12. Competition for empire, 1793-1832
  • 13. The Atlantic seaboard : from mercantilism to industrial capitalism
  • 14. The contest for the continental interior, 1763-1821
  • 15. Emigration and colonization, 1763-1841
  • 16. Finance and politics in Canada, 1793-1841
  • 17. The triumph of steam and gold
  • 18. Commercial reorientation and structural change in the economy of United Canada
  • 19. The dawn of the railway age in British North America
  • 20. The railroad to confederation : Canadian expansion
  • 21. The railroad to confederation : the maritime response
  • 22. Reconquest of the northwest
  • 23. The rise of the Pacific economy
  • 24. Fur trade and Pacific empire
  • 25. From company colony to company province
  • 26. Imperialist rivalries, 1873-1914
  • 27. A railway from Europe to China
  • 28. The contest for the continental interior, 1873-1914
  • 29. Canada and the cross of gold
  • 30. Industrial development and continental integration
  • 31. Transcontinental empire
  • 32. Canadian expansion overseas
  • 33. The approach of war
  • 34. The Canadian economy in the Great War
  • 35. The aftermath of war.