Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Francis Parkman Historian as Hero written by Wilbur R. Jacobs and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Life of Francis Parkman written by Charles Haight Farnham and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1969 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the trial of J W W for the murder of G Parkman Phonographic report by J W Stone Second edition revised written by John White WEBSTER and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trial of J W W Indicted for the Murder of G Parkman Reported for the Boston Journal written by John White WEBSTER and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Francis Parkman The Oregon Trail sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Francis Parkman The Oregon trail sketches of praire and Rocky mountain life written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle for North America written by Francis Parkman and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Francis Parkman written by Howard Doughty and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as author of The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman is now increasingly recognized as one of the greatest nineteenth–century American historians. In Pontiac, Pioneers, La Salle and Montcalm and Wolfe, Parkman, more than anyone else, first grasped the tragic element implicit in our pioneer heritage and placed the opening up of the great North American wilderness in broad historical perspective. Handsome, brilliant, courageous, Parkman drove himself relentlessly. The result was a severe breakdown in his twenties, complicated in later years by other illnesses. This interpretative biography chronicles his triumph over these setbacks and sheds new light on the impressive histories that seem to become ever more contemporary with the passage of time.
Download or read book History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac and the War of North American Tribes Against the English Colonies After the Conquest of Canada written by Francis Parkman and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1855 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Francis Parkman Reader written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1998-03-22 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Parkman (1823–1893), struggling against painful chronic illnesses and very largely self-taught in his field, was not only a pioneering historian but an enduring one. His monumental seven-volume history of discovery, conquest, and empire-building in the New World, France and England in North America (the final volume, Montcalm and Wolfe, is available in its entirety from Da Capo Press/ Perseus Books Group), remains unrivaled for its power, depth, scope, accuracy, and literary artistry. This reader, superbly edited by Samuel Eliot Morison, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian in the Parkman tradition, comprises approximately one-seventh of the original. Rather than stitch together a patchwork of brief, disconnected extracts, Morison has chosen whole chapters or groups of chapters, thereby allowing the reader to follow a story from start to finish, and what stories they are: Champlain's efforts to establish a French empire in the vast forest wilderness; the torture and martyrdom of Father Jogues; La Salle's western expeditions and his murder by mutineers; the bloody Deerfield Massacre; the improbable, madcap, and successful siege of Louisbourg; the swift, dramatic battle on Quebec's Plains of Abraham, in which the fate of a continent was decided; and much more. The result is both an enthralling portrait of early North American colonial history and an unsurpassed introduction to the works of Francis Parkman.
Download or read book Pioneers of France in the New World written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneers of France in the New World written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of Francis Parkman written by Francis Parkman and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wilbur R. Jacobs has assembled just over four hundred of Parkman's letters from the Oregon Trail days to the close of his career in 1893. They depict at close range the life and work of a man who sought not only the materials of history, but also its physical sources in the Far West, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi Valley, and Canada so that he might reveal it against the magnificent backdrop of the stately forests and waterways of the interior wilderness."--Slipcase.
Download or read book The New England Historical and Genealogical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Download or read book Francis Parkman s Works written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
