In the book written on the basis of foreign archival materials, as well as a wide range of published sources and scientific literature, Anglo-French rivalry in North America in the 17th - early 18th centuries is considered. Special attention is paid to the foreign policy and diplomatic aspects of the struggle of the two powers, the role and place of their overseas possessions in inter-state relations of the time, the first independent steps of the English and French colonies in the foreign policy arena. In the second edition, the section on the legal status of colonial expansion was significantly expanded, a larger number of archival documents were used. For historians and international scholars, students and teachers of humanities, everyone interested in the history of colonial America and international relations.