Letters of Francis Parkman to Pierre Margry
Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 95 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1923
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ISBN : 9780598746337
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1923
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ISBN : 9780598746337
Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Historians
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Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Wilbur R. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0292788630
A historian who lived the kind of history he wrote, Francis Parkman is a major—and controversial—figure in American historiography. His narrative style, while popular with readers wanting a "good story," has raised many questions with professional historians. Was Parkman writing history or historical fiction? Did he color historical figures with his own heroic self-image? Was his objectivity compromised by his "unbending, conservative, Brahmin" values? These are some of the many issues that Wilbur Jacobs treats in this thought-provoking study. Jacobs carefully considers the "apprenticeship" of Francis Parkman, first spent in facing the rigors of the Oregon Trail and later in struggling to write his histories despite a mysterious, frequently incapacitating illness. He shows how these events allowed Parkman to create a heroic self-image, which impelled his desire for fame as a historian and influenced his treatment of both the "noble" and the "savage" characters of his histories. In addition to assessing the influence of Parkman's development and personality on his histories, Jacobs comments on Parkman's relationship to basic social and cultural issues of the nineteenth century. These include the slavery question, Native American issues, expansion of the suffrage to new groups, including women, and anti-Catholicism.
Author : Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Page : 898 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Manuscripts
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Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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"Wilbur R. Jacobs has assembled just over four hundred of Parkman's letters from the Oregon Trail days to the close of his career in 1893. They depict at close range the life and work of a man who sought not only the materials of history, but also its physical sources in the Far West, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi Valley, and Canada so that he might reveal it against the magnificent backdrop of the stately forests and waterways of the interior wilderness."--Slipcase.
Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Anna Elizabeth Miller
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Alabama River (Ala.)
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Author : Charles Haight Farnham
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1596050330
Francis Parkman was a historian of the 18th century. Among other things, and despite health problems that plagued him, including nervous ailments, lameness, and increasing blindness, he traveled west over the Oregon Trail, and then wrote about his experiences (The Oregon Trail, 1847). He went on to turn out eight volumes of history, a book on rose culture, and a novel. He chose a theme of the closest interest to his countrymen -- the colonization of the American continent and the wars for its possession -- and he lived through fifty years of toil to complete the great historical series that he designed when he was but a youth at college. The main attraction of the subject lies in his picturesque, manly character, his inspiring example of fortitude and perseverance, and his training and achievements as a historian. In addition, he was a professor of horticulture at Harvard and a founder of the Archaeological Institute of America.