Count Frontenac And New France Under Louis Xiv; France And England In North America. Part Fifth (Vol

Power, pride, and peril on the St Lawrence: Francis Parkman turns seventeenth-century New France into living drama. The age of Louis XIV reaches the Canadian forests, and the stakes span continents. History has never felt closer. In this classic colonial history edition, Parkman charts Count Frontenac's turbulent leadership of New France under Louis XIV, setting his fierce personality against the realities of frontier life, court politics, and fragile alliances. He follows the shifting balance between Count Frontenac and Iroquois nations, the encroaching English colonies, and the distant monarchy, capturing the france england colonial rivalry that shaped North America long before the better-known French and Indian War. As Part Fifth (Volume I) of his complete France and England series, it stands alone as a rich french Canadian history book while also illuminating the wider story of seventeenth century New France and Louis XIV era Canada. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Ideal for Canadian history students, homeschool early American history courses, and readers of narrative non-fiction, this careful modern edition showcases a Francis Parkman New France classic at his finest: exacting in research, vivid in scene, and attuned to the deep currents that made these early conflicts the true precursors to the French and Indian War.