- Paperback: 587 pages
- Publisher: Bison Books (Dec 28 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0803287461
- ISBN-13: 978-0803287464
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.5 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,693,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?[Parkman remains one of the greatest historians, an imaginative writer who demonstrated that narrative history can be both captivating to the reader and historically accurate.??Howard Lamar, Reader?s Encyclopedia of the American West (Howard Lamar Reader?s Encyclopedia of the American West )
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Distinguished by Francis Parkman’s pictorial style, The Jesuits in North America opens with the arrival of French missionaries in Canada in 1632. The stage is set for the aggravation of old rivalries between the Huron and the Iroquois Indians. The Jesuits try to ensure the loyalty of the Hurons, suppliers of fur to the French, but find them resistant to religious conversion. The Iroquois, even more resistant, add the French to their list of enemies. Other factions enlist on one side or the other—French soldiers and anti-Catholic English, for example—but the dramatic pulse of Parkman’s narrative is provided by the Jesuits earnestly matriculating among the Indians, undergoing great hardship and occasionally embracing martyrdom.
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amazing early scholarship on history of the Jesuits, May 25 2008
By New York Doctor "Dr. NY" - Published on Amazon.com
Really great early account of the Jesuits influence on the American West. Also available on Project Gutenberg if you don't have kindle.
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This book documents important events that would be otherwise lost to history, May 3 2012
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This book by Francis Parkman, written in the mid 19th century gives a valuable account of the lives of Jesuit priests sent from France to convert the dangerous native tribes around the Great Lakes area of North America. The Jesuits were meticulous record keepers of their missions in North America in the 17th century and Mr. Parkman was a careful historian.This fascinating book contains much information about the 5 Nations (Iroquois) and the Algonquin tribes and their centuries-long ferocious hatred of each other. The Jesuits sent priests to live among these tribes and the astounding ways these tribes lived are fully explained, especially their culture of torture and canibalism. These priests suffered the greatest physical deprivations and danger living among these war-like people. It also shows the manifold reasons the French were in North America at that time, the most prominant being the fur-trade. While the priests were zealous to convert the Indians to Catholicism, the Crown was interested in the great profits that could be pulled from the forests through making the native peoples dependent on the French.
The book corrects much of the wrong information that most Americans learn about these formidable tribes. It is a gripping look at a culture gone forever and unabashadly shows both the natives' attributes as well as their unrelenting cruelty towards their enemies. The reader comes away with an understanding as to why these peoples are extinct and how in part, their own actions played a definitive role in their eventual demise.
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The Jesuits in Norh America in the Seventeenth Century, Dec 17 2010
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Book arrived quickly and very inexpensive like new. I am very pleased with the speed at which it arrived at my home. The book was recommended and was out of print i had heard, so when I found it on Amazon I was pleased.
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