Beschreibung:
The first book to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization, this book argues that the prime determinant was the uneven development of agricultural systems in western Europe.
Europe in transition at the heart of an economic world-system; North America before European settlement; The question of unequal exchange; Huronia and Iroquoia; Conquer America and conquer the Atlantic; The rebirth of European societies in North America; Conclusion