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Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
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Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Concerns Robert La Salle's explorations in North America.
Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Concerns Robert La Salle's explorations in North America.
Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 504145261X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387059043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1660
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This is the second of two Library of America volumes (the companion volume here) presenting, in compact form, all seven parts of Francis Parkman’s monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman’s “history of the American forest” is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly describes. The story reaches its climax with the fatal confrontation of two great commanders at Quebec’s Plains of Abraham—and a daring stratagem that would determine the future of a continent. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877) details how France might have won her imperial struggle with England. Frontenac, a courtier who was made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony’s brightest era of growth and influence. Had Canada’s later governors possessed his administrative skill and personal force, his sense of diplomacy and political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion. England’s American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World and the New, declined from its greatness of the late seventeenth century. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in A Half-Century of Conflict (1892), these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the colonies for the American Revolution. In Montcalm and Wolfe (1884) Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the two great French and English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, and their unique position. In this imperial war of European powers we also begin to see the American figures—Benjamin Franklin, George Washington—soon to occupy a historical stage of their own. 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:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
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Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387059973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: William Peterfield Trent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Author: Haverhill Public Library
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ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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