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:
Part 1 [ Ссылка ]
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 21 - Chapter XXI 1682, 1683 St. Louis of the Illinois
00:28:52 - 22 - Chapter XXII 1680-1683 La Salle Painted by Himself
00:52:26 - 23 - Chapter XXIII 1684 A New Enterprise
01:23:33 - 24 - Chapter XXIV 1684, 1685 The Voyage
01:41:29 - 25 - Chapter XXV 1685 La Salle in Texas
02:03:08 - 26 - Chapter XXVI 1685-1687 St. Louis of Texas
02:48:28 - 27 - Chapter XXVII 1687 Assassination of La Salle
03:10:07 - 28 - Chapter XXVIII 1687, 1688 The Innocent and the Guilty
03:52:53 - 29 - Chapter XXIX 1688-1689 Fate of the Texan Colony
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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