Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : California National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Oregon Trail
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : California National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac, and the War of North American Tribes Against the English Colonies After the Conquest of Canada
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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The Battle for North America
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842124161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 775
Book Description
Originally published in 1889 in 13 volumes, this brilliant, unequalled work by the most famous American historian of the age has now been skillfully edited into a single edition. The wonderfully readable result retains its sharp focus and wonderfully graceful style, while eliminating repetitions and archaic phrases. Playing out in the dramatic account is the struggle for a continent, and the brilliant men who dominated the conflict: Champlain, La Salle, Washington, Howe, and others. By ousting the French from the land, the British unwittingly set the stage for their own later defeat.
Pioneers of France in the New World
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero
Author: Wilbur R. JacobsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A historian who lived the kind of history he wrote, Francis Parkman is a major—and controversial—figure in American historiography. His narrative style, while popular with readers wanting a "good story," has raised many questions with professional historians. Was Parkman writing history or historical fiction? Did he color historical figures with his own heroic self-image? Was his objectivity compromised by his "unbending, conservative, Brahmin" values? These are some of the many issues that Wilbur Jacobs treats in this thought-provoking study. Jacobs carefully considers the "apprenticeship" of Francis Parkman, first spent in facing the rigors of the Oregon Trail and later in struggling to write his histories despite a mysterious, frequently incapacitating illness. He shows how these events allowed Parkman to create a heroic self-image, which impelled his desire for fame as a historian and influenced his treatment of both the "noble" and the "savage" characters of his histories. In addition to assessing the influence of Parkman's development and personality on his histories, Jacobs comments on Parkman's relationship to basic social and cultural issues of the nineteenth century. These include the slavery question, Native American issues, expansion of the suffrage to new groups, including women, and anti-Catholicism.
Pioneers of France in the New World
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Francis Parkman's Works
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The Book of Roses
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown
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Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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