The Old Regime in Canada (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Francis Parkman
- First Published: 1874
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1604-1763
- Setting: Canada
- Principal Characters: Charles Saint-etienne De La Tour, Charles De Menou D’aunay Charnisay, Father Poncet, Francois Xavier De Laval-montmorency, Abbe De Queylus, BIshop Saint-valliers, The Vicomte D’argenson, Baron Dubois D’avaugour, Father Simon Le Moyne, Chomedey De Maisonneuve, Jean Baptiste Talon, The Marquis Prouville De Tracy
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Native Americans or American Indians, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Politicians, Canada or Canadians, Jesuits, French Canadians
- Locales: Canada
Francis Parkman, along with William Hickling Prescott and John Lothrop Motley, is one of the great American historians of the nineteenth century and indeed of the twentieth also. Parkman differs from the other two in that he had a controlled style not subject to useless rhetorical flights, and he was more able to give to his writings a sense of immediacy.
His great accomplishment as historian derives from at least three firm beliefs about the art of this craft. He believed that the historian should pay close attention to research, going to primary documents wherever possible, and...
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