THE EMPIRE OF THE ST LAWRENCE - A Study in Commerce and Politics

by Donald Grant Creighton

Book Overview

Originally published in 1937 as "The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850" and re-issued in its present form in 1956, Donald Creighton's study of the St. Lawrence became an essential text... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B001V8XE12
• Release Date: January 1956
• Publisher: The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Major historical events and their repercussions

Enhanced with a new introduction by Christopher Moore, this University of Toronto Press trade paperback edition of The Empire Of The St. Lawrence: A Study Of Commerce And Politics by the late Donald Creighton (1902-1979) reintroduces to a modern readership a truly scholarly work addressing the rise and fall of a Canadian trading empire from 1763 to 1850. Individual chapters address major historical events and their repercussions in the region of the lower lakes, the conflict between commerce and agriculture, and much more. Organized into three principal sections (The First Unity of the St. Lawrence; Transition in the Region of the Lower Lakes; The Struggle for the Second Commercial Empire), and enhanced with "Bibliographical Note" and "Notes" sections, The Empire Of The St. Lawrence is a meticulously researched, college-level source book, that continues to be recommended for academic reference collections as a definitive and seminal work.