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The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

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Number of Chapters: 40

Length: 12 hours

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."

(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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Intro. pt 01: Native Tribes: Divisions (David Lawrence)
Intro. pt 02: The Hurons, (CC)
Intro. pt 03: The Huron-Iroquois Family, (Sibella Denton)
Intro. pt 04: The Iroquois, (Sibella Denton)
Intro. pt 05: Religion and Superstitions (aratinga)
Ch 01: 1634, Notre Dame des Anges; (Mark Penfold)
Ch 02: Loyola and the Jesuits (Mark Penfold)
Ch 03: 1632-1633, Paul le Jeune; (Jacquerie)
Ch 04: 1633-1634, le Jeune and the Hunters; (Jacquerie)
Ch 05: 1633-1634, The Huron Mission; (Sibella Denton)
Ch 06: 1634-1635, Brebeuf and his Associates (Sibella Denton)
Ch 07: 1636-1637, The Feast of the Dead; (Sibella Denton)
Ch 08: 1636-1637, The Huron and the Jesuit (Sibella Denton)
Ch 09: 1637, Character of the Canadian Jesuits (Sibella Denton)
Ch 10: 1637-1640, Persecution (Sibella Denton)
Ch 11: 1638-1640, Priest and Pagan (Sibella Denton)
Ch 12: 1639-1640, The Tobacco Nation--the Neutrals (Sibella Denton)
Ch 13: 1636-1646, Quebec and its Tenants; 3753 words (Shirley Ellen)
Ch 14: 1636-1652, Devotees and Nuns (Sibella Denton)
Ch 15: 1637-1640, Persecution (Sibella Denton)
Ch 16 pt 1: 1641-1644, Isaac Jogues (Sibella Denton)
Ch 16 pt 2: 1641-1644, Isaac Jogues (Sibella Denton)
Ch 17: 1641-1646, The Iroguois--Bressani--de Noue (Sibella Denton)
Ch 18: 1642-1644, Villemarie (Sibella Denton)
Ch 19: 1644-1645, Peace (Sibella Denton)
Ch 20: 1645-1646, The Peace Broken (Sibella Denton)
Ch 21: 1646-1647, Another War (Sibella Denton)
Ch 22: 1645-1651, Priest and Puritan (Sibella Denton)
Ch 23: 1645-1648, A Doomed Nation (Sibella Denton)
Ch 24: 1645-1648, The Huron Church (Sibella Denton)
Ch 25: 1648-1649, Sainte Marie (Sibella Denton)
Ch 26: 1648, Antoine Daniel; 1141 words (Mark Penfold)
Ch 27: 1649, Ruin of the Hurons (Sibella Denton)
Ch 28: 1649, The Martyrs (Mark Penfold)
Ch 29: 1649-1650, The Sanctuary (Sibella Denton)
Ch 30: 1649, Garnier--Chabanel (Sibella Denton)
Ch 31: 1650-1652, The Huron Mission Abandoned; (davidb)
Ch 32: 1650-1866, The Last of the Hurons (davidb)
Ch 33: 1650-1670, The Destroyers (Sibella Denton)
Ch 34: The End, (David Lawrence)
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