HIS263Y1 Lecture : The Long Peace
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Part of the political world of the great lakes: english begin a monopoly in the northern america, around the hudson s. This contested the french monopoly on furs: territorial claims, new france sends an embassary into the great lakes to claim the. Ii. whole region in the name of the king of france: enacts a ceremony that other europeans would recognize, expanding the fur trade their territorial claims. Geopolitics trumps economics: failure of the compact colony, france was involved in another war. Funding to the colonies was cut: 1689-1713, there was a european depression. Lack of funds available for the colony: louis 14th attention turned away from new france, lack of attention to the new colonies, local industry, despite investment, like shipbuilding, was too expensive and not enough funding. It wasn t economically possible to keep it up in. The long peace: expansion through alliance, the creating of posts all around the great lakes, the area around them.
