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Francis Parkman’s France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol. 1 is a scholarly history of the colonial struggle from 1700 to 1750, built on a massive collection of original documents that he deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society. The opening pages explain his method, accepting secondary writers only when they match contemporary evidence, and noting the painstaking assembly of about seventy folio volumes over forty‑five years. The contents list reveals a tightly organized narrative, moving from the Spanish Succession and Queen Anne’s War through frontier raids, the founding of Louisbourg, and the complex diplomacy of the Five Nations, all anchored in primary sources.
Parkman writes in the measured, nineteenth‑century prose of a meticulous historian, blending detailed diplomatic analysis with vivid descriptions of frontier life. His voice is that of a careful chronicler who strives for balance, even as he acknowledges accusations of bias. Readers who appreciate rigorous documentary foundations, the intricacies of early‑American and Canadian colonial politics, and a literary style that reflects the scholarly tone of the 1890s will find this volume rewarding.
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Like the rest of the series, this work is founded on original documents. The statements of secondary writers have been accepted only when found to conform to the evidence of contemporaries, whose writings have been sifted and collated with the greatest care. As extremists on each side have charged me with favoring the other, I hope I have been unfair to neither.
The manuscript material collected for the preparation of the series now complete forms about seventy volumes, most of them folios. These have been given by me from time to time to the Massachusetts Historical Society, in whose library they now are, open to the examination of those interested in the subjects of which they treat. The collection was begun forty-five years ago, and its formation has been exceedingly slow, having been retarded by difficulties which seemed insurmountable, and for years were so in fact. Hence the completion of the series has required twice the time that would have sufficed under less unfavorable conditions.
Boston, March 26, 1892.
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