A fleeting empire : early Stuart Britain and the merchant adventurers to Canada / / Andrew D. Nicholls.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 246 p. :; ill., maps, ports. |
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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.