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Pioneers of France in the New World

Pioneers of France in the New World

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Number of Chapters: 30

Length: 10 hours and 22 minutes

Language: English

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 1 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 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3721 for footnotes. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline)

Part 1: Pioneers of France in the New World
Part 2: The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century
Part 4: The Old Régime in Canada
Part 5: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
Part 6: Montcalm and Wolfe
Part 7: A Half Century of Conflict

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Introduction (Sibella Denton)
PT 1 HUGENOTS IN FLORIDA: Ch 01 (1512-1561) Early Spanish Adventure (Sibella Denton)
Ch 02 (1550-1558) Villegagnon (Sibella Denton)
Ch 03 (1562, 1563) Jean Ribaut (Keith Henige)
Ch 04 (1564) Laudonniere (JimOCR)
Ch 05 (1564, 1565) Conspiracy (Katie Riley)
Ch 06 (1564, 1565) Famine - War - Succor (Keneva)
Ch 07 pt 1 (1565) Menendez (Sibella Denton)
Ch 07 pt 2 (1565) Menendez (Sibella Denton)
Ch 08 (1565) Massacre of the Heretics (Sibella Denton)
Ch 09 (1565-1567) Charles IX - Phillip II (Mark Penfold)
Ch 10 (1567-1583) Dominique de Gourgues (Sibella Denton)
PT 2 SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN & HIS ASSOCIATES WITH A VIEW OF EARLIER FRENCH ADVENTURE IN AMERICA, AND THE LEGENDS OF THE NORTHERN COASTS: Ch 01 pt 1 (1488 - 1543) Champlain: Early French Adventure in North America (David Nicol)
Ch 01 pt 2 (1488-1543) Champlain: Early French Adventure in North America (Jacquerie)
Ch 02 (1542-1604) LaRoche - Champlain - de Monts (Jacquerie)
Ch 03 (1604, 1605) Acadia Occupied (Jacquerie)
Ch 04 (1605-1607) Lescarbot and Champlain (Jacquerie)
Ch 05 (1610, 1611) The Jesuits and Their Patroness (Sibella Denton)
Ch 06 (1611, 1612) Jesuits in Arcadia (Katie Riley)
Ch 07 (1613) la Saussaye - Argall (Mark Penfold)
Ch 08 (1613-1615) Ruin of French Acadia (Sibella Denton)
Ch 09 (1608, 1609) Champlain at Quebec (Sibella Denton)
Ch 10 (1609) Lake Champlain (Sibella Denton)
Ch 11 (1610-1612) War - Trade - Discovery (Sibella Denton)
Ch 12 (1612, 1613) The Impostor Vignau (Sibella Denton)
Ch 13 (1615) Discovery of Lake Huron (Sibella Denton)
Ch 14 (1615, 1616) The Great War Party (Sibella Denton)
Ch 15 (1616-1627) Hostile Sects - Rival Interests) (Sibella Denton)
Ch 16 (1628, 1629) The English at Quebec (Sibella Denton)
Ch 17 (1632-1635) Death of Champlain (Sibella Denton)
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