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The Old Régime In Canada (Volume II)

The Old Régime In Canada (Volume II)

Parkman, Francis

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General SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354485332
ISBN13: 9789354485336
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Power always leaves its mark. In The Old Regime in Canada (Volume II), Francis Parkman turns the rise of New France into a vivid narrative history book, tracing how a distant absolutist court shaped raw settlements on the St Lawrence. With a novelist's eye and a historian's discipline, he explores colonial government and society, the authority of church and crown, and the ambitions that drove the fur trade in New France. Policy, belief, and daily hardship are set against a harsh northern landscape, revealing the mentality of French colonial Canada in the seventeenth century and the early patterns that would echo through later Canadian colonial history. First published as part of Parkman's France and England in North America project, this Francis Parkman classic history is recognised as a New France history classic and academic history reference. Its attention to institutions and character in French colonial Canada makes it indispensable for Canadian history students, scholars of the French colonization of Canada, and any reader drawn to the drama of 17th century New France. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For general readers of narrative history and collectors of classic literature, The Old Regime in Canada (Volume II) is a key work in the France and England North America story, a penetrating portrait of a vanished world whose legacies still shape the continent.

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