La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis PARKMAN, JR. (1823 - 1893)
Genre(s): Early Modern
Read by: Phil Schempf, laurencetrask, Paul Esmond, KevinS, Kathleen Moore, Shaun Blake, Andrew Kennedy, Rita Boutros, Hopeforce1, Theoden Humphrey, Nate Oman in English
Parts:
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction
00:05:27 - 01 - Chapter I 1643-1669 Cavelier De La Salle
00:21:03 - 02 - Chapter II 1669-1671 La Salle and the Sulpitians
00:44:04 - 03 - Chapter III 1670-1672 The Jesuits on the Lakes
01:02:50 - 04 - Chapter IV 1667-1672 France Takes Possession of the West
01:17:02 - 05 - Chapter V 1672-1675 The Discovery of the Mississippi
01:52:57 - 06 - Chapter VI 1673-1678 La Salle and Frontenac
02:29:03 - 07 - Chapter VII 1678 Party Strife
02:44:58 - 08 - Chapter VIII 1677, 1678 The Grand Enterprise
03:00:32 - 09 - Chapter IX 1678-1679 La Salle at Niagara
03:18:14 - 10 - Chapter X 1679 The Launch of the 'Griffin'
03:26:51 - 11 - Chapter XI 1679 La Salle on the Upper Lakes
03:48:36 - 12 - Chapter XII 1679, 1680 La Salle on the Illinois
04:12:36 - 13 - Chapter XIII 1680 Fort CRÈVECŒUR
04:25:05 - 14 - Chapter XIV 1680 Hardihood of La Salle
04:44:01 - 15 - Chapter XV 1680 Indian Conquerors
05:04:22 - 16 - Chapter XVI 1680 Tonty and the Iroquois
05:39:38 - 17 - Chapter XVII 1680 The Adventures of Hennepin
06:02:53 - 18 - Chapter XVIII 1680, 1681 Hennepin Among the Sioux
06:35:40 - 19 - Chapter XIX 1681 La Salle Begins Anew
06:55:04 - 20 - Chapter XX 1681-1682 Success of La Salle
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) in his book O Canada (1965), described Parkman's France and England in North America in these terms: The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman's narrative are among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art.Parkman's biases, particularly his attitudes about nationality, race, and especially Native Americans, has generated criticism. The Canadian historian W. J. Eccles harshly criticized what he perceived as Parkman's bias against France and Roman Catholic policies, as well as what he considered Parkman's misuse of French language sources. However, Parkman's most severe detractor was the American historian Francis Jennings, an outspoken and controversial critic of the European colonization of North America, who went so far as to characterize Parkman's work as 'fiction' and Parkman himself as a 'liar'.Unlike Jennings and Eccles, many modern historians have found much to praise in Parkman's work even while recognizing his limitations. Calling Jennings' critique 'vitriolic and unfair,' the historian Robert S. Allen has said that Parkman's history of France and England in North America 'remains a rich mixture of history and literature which few contemporary scholars can hope to emulate'. The historian Michael N. McConnell, while acknowledging the historical errors and racial prejudice in Parkman's book The Conspiracy of Pontiac, has said: '...it would be easy to dismiss Pontiac as a curious perhaps embarrassing artifact of another time and place. Yet Parkman's work represents a pioneering effort; in several ways he anticipated the kind of frontier history now taken for granted....' Parkman's masterful and evocative use of language remains his most enduring and instructive legacy. This is Vol 3 of Parkman's series 'France and England in North America.' The LibriVox recording does not include footnotes, many of which are extended quotations from original French sources: See project Gutenberg [ Ссылка ] for footnotes. - Summary by Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen MerlinePart 1: Pioneers of France in the New WorldPart 2: The Jesuits in North America in the 17th CenturyPart 4: The Old Régime in CanadaPart 5: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIVPart 6: Montcalm and WolfePart 7: A Half Century of Conflict
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