Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64

This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the French, Dutch and English colonization of northeastern North America during the early and middle decades of the 17th century. It is the first to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization, arguing that its prime determinant was the uneven development of agricultural systems in western Europe. "Bitter Feast" examines the impact of colonization upon the native peoples and the nature of the colonial societies which were established in northeastern North America. Denys Delage contends that the outcome of colonial rivalries in North America depended on the characteristics of the European national economies which were competing with each other for a share of the world market, maintaining that the Netherlands constituted the core of the European world system prior to the 1660s, with England and France both part of the semi-periphery. Originally published in French, this award-winning book presents a provocative world-system analysis of European colonization of northeastern North America during the early and middle decades of the 17th century.

History

Delâge, Denys

Americas

Univ of British Columbia Pr

‘A strange and gripping tragedy’ is how Brian Moore has described the seventeenth-century confrontation of Europeans and Amerindians in his compelling novel, Black Robe. In Bitter Feast, sociologist an dhistorian Denys Delage takes a fresh look at the struggle underlying the meeting of two civilizations on the North American continent. Both civilizations had strongly developed economic, religious, and cultural traditions. Each had something to give and something to learns, and yet one was to emerge as a powerful new force, while the other was to be shaken to its foundations. ‘The race to accumulate capital drove European shipes to teh shores of northeastern North America,’ writes Delage, ‘brining into contact two civilizations--one on the brink of Industrial Revolution, the other still in the Stone Age.’ When the first Europeans arrived, the continent’s population was as great as that of Europe. Until this time, Amerindians had rarely lacked food, and had traded widely on foot and by water for the commodities they desired. Caught in the web of an unequal trading relationship where furs were exchanged for fish hooks and faith, Amerindian civilization in northeastern North America faced a challenge that set the pattern for future generations. Finally available in English, this award-winning book presents a provocative world-system analysis of European coilonization in North America as well as a sobering account of the impact that this colonization had on native peoples. It will be of interest tooanyone looking for new ways of understanding the continent’s early history--the legacy of which still has implications today.

UBC Press

Le pays renversé: Amérindiens et européens en Amérique du nord-est, 1600-1664 (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Boréal Express

Le Pays renverse

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

BOREAL

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