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Monopolizing Commerce and Colonization: The Uses and Abuses of French Royal Commercial Companies.
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USAOrganisation: The Society for the History of DiscoveriesHistorians of French overseas commerce and colonization have debated the advantages and disadvantages of French state-sponsored companies of commerce and colonization since the creation of these companies in the seventeenth century. Were these companies really more efficient at financing and organizing French overseas exploration and colonial ventures, or were they actually an impediment that help to explain why the British were so easily able to oust the French from most of North America?
This talk will focus on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, relating how and why the French crown created these companies and discussing the most recent scholarship regarding their role, especially in the exploration and colonization of North America.Time schedule: 19.00 UTC; 13.00 CSTURL: https://discoveryhistory.org/2021-virtual-lecture-series/
