Volume 30, Number 15 · October 13, 1983
Repossessing America
By William P. Taylor
France and England in North America Vol. I: Pioneers of France in the New World; The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century; La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; The Old Régime in Canada
by Francis Parkman, edited by David Levin
1,504 pp.
France and England in North America Vol. II: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; A Half-Century of Conflict; Montcalm and Wolfe
by Francis Parkman, edited by David Levin
The Library of America, 1,620 pp., $30.00 each volume
Francis Parkman's seven-part history, France and England in North America, the consuming work of the last twenty-seven years of his life, has now been made available by the Library of America to readers of the 1980s. There is little doubt that its publication will raise the question of Parkman's standing both as a historian and as an imaginative writer. Indeed, the decision to bring out Parkman's histories early in the series is the most interesting one the editors have so far made.
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