France And England In North America The Discovery Of The Great West 1879
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Author | : Francis Parkman |
Publisher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 1530 |
Release | : 1983-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780940450103 |
This Library of America volume, along with its companion, presents, for the first time in compact form, all seven titles of Francis Parkman’s monumental account of France and England’s imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Parkman’s accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly describes. Pioneers of France in the New World (1865) begins with the early and tragic settlement of the French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts to the northern reaches of the continent and follows the expeditions of Samuel de Champlain up the St. Lawrence River and into the Great Lakes as he mapped the wilderness, organized the fur trade, promoted Christianity among the natives, and waged a savage forest campaign against the Iroquois. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (1867) traces the zealous efforts of the Jesuits and other Roman Catholic orders to convert the Native American tribes of North America. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869) records that explorer’s voyages on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and his treks, often alone, across the vast western prairies and through the labyrinthine swamps of Louisiana. The Old Régime in Canada (1874) recounts the political struggles among the religious sects, colonial officials, feudal chiefs, royal ministers, and military commanders of Canada. Their bitter fights over the monopoly of the fur trade, the sale of brandy to the natives, the importation of wives from the orphanages and poorhouses of France, and the bizarre fanaticism of religious extremists and their “incessant supernaturalism” animate this pioneering social history of early Canada. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author | : Francis Parkman |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 1054 |
Release | : 2018-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 504145261X |
Author | : Francis Parkman |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2023-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387059043 |
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Author | : Francis Parkman |
Publisher | : Boston : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Great Lakes Region (North America) |
ISBN | : |
Concerns Robert La Salle's explorations in North America.
Author | : Francis Parkman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kevin Jon Fernlund |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2022-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826274773 |
The special relationship between the United Kingdom, an established and secure power, and the United States, a rising one, began after the War of 1812, as the former enemies sought accommodation with, rather than the annihilation of, one another. At the same time, Mexico, also a rising power, was not so fortunate. Its relationship with Spain, an established but declining power, turned hostile with Spain’s final exit from North America after Mexico’s War of Independence, leaving its former colony isolated, internally unstable, and vulnerable to external attack. Significantly, Mexico posed little threat to its northern neighbor. By the third decade of the eighteenth century, then, the fate of North America was largely discernable. Nevertheless, the three-century journey to get to this point had been anything but predictable. The United States’ rise as a regional power was very much conditioned by constantly shifting transcontinental, transpacific, and above all transatlantic factors, all of which influenced North America’s three interactive cultural spheres: the Indigenous, the Hispano, and the Anglo. And while the United States profoundly shaped the history of Canada and Mexico, so, too, did these two transcontinental countries likewise shape the course of U.S. history. In this ground-breaking work, Kevin Fernlund shows us that any society’s social development is directly related to its own social power and, just as crucially, to the protective extension or destructive intrusion of the social power of other societies.
Author | : Francis Parkman |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2023-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387059965 |
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Author | : Dorothy Anne Dondore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Francis Parkman |
Publisher | : Boston : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Explorers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Justin Winsor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |