This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. The analysis and ideas in the first edition helped create a whole new school of thought about Canadian history. Over 50,000 copies have been used in classrooms in Canada and the United States in the decade since its publication. In this revised edition, the author updates the bibliography and adds new ideas advanced in the 1970s that will make more valuable still this acclaimed general history of New France.

Histories of the American Frontier: The Canadian Frontier 1534-1760

Eccles, W.J.

History

International Thomson Publishing

This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. The analysis and ideas in the first edition helped create a whole new school of thought about Canadian history. Over 50,000 copies have been used in classrooms in Canada and the United States in the decade since its publication. In this revised edition, the author updates the bibliography and adds new ideas advanced in the 1970s that will make more valuable still this acclaimed general history of New France.

The Canadian frontier, 1534-1760 (Histories of the American frontier)

Americas

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

This volume by distinguished Anglo-Canadian social historian W.J. Eccles includes twelve essays on such topics as Francis Parkman's view of New France; social welfare; the western frontier; the roles of the church, military, and fur trade; and a reappraisal of the Battle of Quebec.

Essays on New France

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Oxford University Press

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac (1622–1698), was a towering figure in North American history. Appointed in 1672 as governor general of New France, he was credited with intimidating the Iroquois, defying British colonial military might, and promoting France’s imperial expansion to the west. W. J. Eccles masterfully debunks these myths, created in part by Francis Parkman, and reveals Frontenac as an anachronism who sought to maintain his privileged status through corruption, favors at court, and the illicit pursuit of commerce in the West. A deft analysis and reexamination of official administrative and military sources have made Frontenac the classic study of a complex and historically misrepresented governor.

Frontenac: The Courtier Governor

University Of Nebraska Press

The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 (Histories of the American Frontier Series)

University of New Mexico Press

France in America

Reference

Michigan State Univ Pr

The Fur Trade Revisited is a collection of twenty-eight essays selected from the more than fifty presentations made at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1991. Essays contained in this important new interpretive work focus on the history, archaeology, and literature of a fascinating, growing area of scholarly investigation.Underscoring the work's multifaceted approach is an introductory essay by Lily McAuley titled "Memories of a Trapper's Daughter." This vivid and compelling account of the fur-trade life sets a level of quality for what follows.Part one of The Fur Trade Revisited discusses eighteenth-century fur trade intersections with European markets. The essays in part two examine Native people and the strategies they employed to meet demands placed on them by the market for furs. Part three examines the origins, motives, and careers of those who actually participated in the fur trade. Part four focuses attention on the indigenous fur-trade culture and subsequent archaeology in the area around Mackinac Island, Michigan, while part five contains studies focusing on the fur-trade culture in other parts of North America. Part six assesses the fur trade after 1870 and part seven contains evaluations of the critical historical and literary interpretations prevalent in fur-trade scholarship.

The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, MacKinac Island, Michigan, 1991

Brown, Jennifer S.H.

North American Fur Trade Conference 1991 (Mackinac Island, Mich.)

Business & Money

Describes the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and in the West Indies. Depicts the attempt to create a New Jerusalem in the North American wilderness, gives an account of the creation of industries and commerce from the slave plantations of the south to the fur trade of the northwest, and discusses the colonists of other European powers. Previously published under the title France in America. This third edition takes into account new research into primary sources. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The French in North America 1500-1783

Eccles, William John

In this masterly analysis of New France and the other French colonies in America, he throws fresh and convincing light at once on the imperial policy of France in America and also on the profound and enduring foundation of the French identity in Canada and America. No other historian, in my opinion, has attained such insight into the French fact in North America history.

Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited

This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and the West Indies, from the arrival of the Breton, Norman and Basque fishermen on the Grand Banks around 1500 to the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. Professor Eccles depicts the establishment of Baroque civilization and the attempt of the establishment of industries and commerce from the slave plantations of the south to the fur trade posts of the far northwest, and discusses the colonists of other European powers.

French in North America 1500-1783

Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

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Histories of the American Frontier: The Canadian Frontier 1534-1760

The Canadian frontier, 1534-1760 (Histories of the American frontier)

Essays on New France

Frontenac: The Courtier Governor

The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 (Histories of the American Frontier Series)

France in America

The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, MacKinac Island, Michigan, 1991

The French in North America 1500-1783

France in America

French in North America 1500-1783