Francis Parkman

Strang, Herbert (editor) (Francis Parkman; G. Warburton; John MacMullen; Robert Wright): THE GREAT FIGHT FOR CANADA - Canada's Story: The First Conquest of Quebec; Count Frontenac's Successful Defence; Fighting the Iroquois: The Heroine of Vercheres; The Opening of the Campaign of 1759: Fort Niagara and Crown Point; The Siege of Louisbourg, London Oxford University Press 1927
Very Good W. R. S. Stott;

160 pp. Blue cloth with a pasted-on colour pictorial on the front panel; pasted-on colour pictorial on the spine; decorated in black on the front panel and spine. Some minor chipping along the upper right of the illustration on the spine; the cloth has faded along the leading edge of the front panel and on the lower left of the rear panel; hinges tight; gutters intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with a map and four colour plates by W. R. S. Stott; all the colour plates are present. This anthology contains: The First Conquest of Quebec - from Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman; Count Frontenac's Successful Defence; Ticonderoga; and The Plains of Abraham - from The Conquest of Canada by G. Warburton; Fighting the Iroquois: The Heroine of Vercheres - from Count Frontenac by Francis Parkman; The Opening of the Campaign of 1759: Fort Niagara and Crown Point; Fighting After the Fall of Quebec; and The American Invasion 1812 - 1813 - from The History of Canada by John MacMullen; The Siege of Louisbourg - from Life of Wolfe by Robert Wright; and Indian War - from The Conspiracy of Pontiac by Francis Parkman. First Edition Hard Cover 8vo

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PARKMAN, FRANCIS; MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON (SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY). The Parkman Reader: From The Works Of Francis Parkman. Little, Brown and Company, Boston: 1955.

533 pages. "The purpose of this Reader," writes the distinguished historian Samuel Eliot Morison, "is to present the public with selections from the works of Francis Parkman, who is universally admitted to be one of the greatest - if not the greatest - historian that the New World has produced. Parkman's major achievement, from which these selections are taken, is the monumental France and England in North America. Includes maps and an Index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition but dustjacket is somewhat worn.

[SW: (Key Words: Francis Parkman, United States History, Samuel Eliot Morison, Maps, General James Wolfe, Sulpitians, Louis XIV, Robert Cavalier de La Salle, Fur Trade, Samuel de Champlain, Canada).]

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PARKMAN, FRANCIS: The Journals of Francis Parkman, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947

First edition. Two volumes; 8vo; pp. xxv, 381; vii, [382] - 718; illustrated. Owner's sticker to front free endpaper; else a very good set or better in original gilt-stamped blue cloth, in very good dust jackets, in a dilapidated slipcase. Journals narrating Parkman's travels through New Egnland, Canada, the Great Lakes region, Europe, and the Oregon and Santa Fe trails.

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American Slavery, American Freedom. History Book Club by arrangement with WW Norton & Company, Inc, 2005
0965727009 Front states, "Francis Parkman Prize Edition.with a new introduction by the author." Rear states "A history book club exclusive edition." new book in perfect condtion; not remaindered or marked. Product Description The men who came together to found the independent United States, writes Edmund S. Morgan, either held slaves or were willing to join hands with those who did. George Washington, hero of the Revolution, was the master of several hundred slaves. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, owned more than two hundred men, women, and children while eloquently defending the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In this classic work, Edmund S. Morgan investigates the bond between slavery and freedom that lies at the very heart of our nation. Through a meticulous history of Virginia, from its earliest settlement through the seventeenth century boom in tobacco, the gradual replacement of servitude with slavery, and the rise of republican ideology, Morgan reveals the deep and interlocking relationship between these seemingly contradictory ideas. Winner of the 1976 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, American Slavery, American Freedom is now available in an exclusive HBC edition with a new introduction from Eric Foner. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is the author of Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and, most recently, of the best-selling Benjamin Franklin. Morgan was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2000. New York Times Book Review Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable. Book Description "If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. With a new introduction. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Award. About the Author Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and the author of Benjamin Franklin. Morgan was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2000..

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