James Pritchard is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Queen's University. He is the author of Louis XV's Navy, 1748-1762 (1987), and Anatomy of a Naval Disaster (1995), which was awarded the Keith Matthews Prize by the Canadian Nautical Research Society and received a John Lyman Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
List of tables
Maps and graphs
Illustrations
Preface
Dates, weights, measures and currencies
List of abbreviations
Part 1: Colonies Formed: 1. Colonial populations
2. Settlements and societies
3. Production
4. Trade and exchange
5. Government and politics
Part 2: Colonies Defended: 6. The Franco-Dutch War in the Americas, 1672-8
7. France and the Nine Years' War in the Americas
8. The War of the Spanish Succession in the Americas
9. Elusive empire
Appendices.
