A fleeting empire early Stuart Britain and the merchant adventurers to Canada /

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Autor Principal: Nicholls, Andrew D., 1965-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Montréal ; Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.