COLONIAL: NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND (FISKE) CD-WIN/MACAuthor: John Fiske
Pages: 6 maps, 418
Pub. Date: (1902) 2008
Fiske devotes this volume of his series on colonial American history to the French colonies of North America and to related aspects of New England history in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, bringing the story down to 1763, laying the groundwork for his volumes on the Revolution.
The first four chapters, comprising about a third of the book, narrate the French voyages of discovery to North America and the French settlements at Quebec, Montreal and the region that became the Maritime Provinces. This part of the story includes the explorations up the St. Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes and into the headwaters of the Mississippi. Along the way, much is learned of the relations between the French and the various Native Americans then living in these regions.
Fiske then turns his attention back to New England, first telling the story of the Salem witchcraft scare of 1692 and then relating the coming of the Great Awakening of the 1730s. Interwoven with these tales are accounts of the conflicts between New Englanders and the northern Indian tribes, some of them associated with and encouraged by the French.
All of this leads up to an account of the French and Indian War of the 1750s, the North American manifestation of the larger European Seven Years' War. The Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia, the French were defeated at Quebec and the history of New France came to a formal end with the Treaty of Paris of 1763.
The CD includes high-quality images of every page as originally published (not just a transcript) and is fully searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 5 or later recommended) on any Windows, Macintosh, or Unix computer. The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation.
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