CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library	Samuel de Champlain, Les voyages du sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois... Paris: Jean Berjon, 1613.
The multiple editions of Champlain's Voyages form the most lasting textual monument to early French colonization in North America. Filled with navigational detail, images of natives, and maps, the accounts make a case for the permanence of the French presence and contrast French actions with those of the Spanish.

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Promotion and Possession

• New Spain
• The English Colonies
• [Return to] New France

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