xv, 413 pp. Maps on endpapers, black-and-white plates. Includes: Author's Preface; Foreword; A History Begins; The Awakening of Europe; The Empire of the Beaver; New Netherland: Government of Merchants and Bookkeepers; The Great Patroon; The Forest Retreats; Gateway to the Western Country; Albany and the French and Indian Wars; Crossroad of Empire; The Last Years of England's Rule; Albany in the American Revolution; Roads to Wealth; Clinton's Ditch; The Iron Horse; Dawn of the Power Age; Our Own Age.