Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664 by Daniel Weeks is the first comprehensive comparative study of the North American fur-trading colonies New France and New Netherland. Weeks traces the evolution of Quebec and New Amsterdam from hubs for trade with the Indians to gateways for European settlement.

Daniel Weeks is assistant research professor at the Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reconnaissance and the Shaping of Colonial Policy
Chapter 2: First Attempts at Settlement in New France
Chapter 3: Building the Network: Champlain on the St. Lawrence
Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Staking a Claim-New Netherland
Chapter 5: Building the Network-New Netherland
Chapter 6: The Fur Trade-the Dominant Flow?
Chapter 7: Native-American Networks, Flows of Disease, and the Fur Trade
Chapter 8: Flows of People
Chapter 9: Flows of Ideas
Conclusion: The Diffuse and Specific Networks of New Amsterdam and Quebec
Bibliography
About the Author