The Old R�gime In Canada (Volume II)

Power always leaves its mark. In The Old Regime in Canada (Volume II), Francis Parkman turns the rise of New France into a vivid narrative history book, tracing how a distant absolutist court shaped raw settlements on the St Lawrence. With a novelist's eye and a historian's discipline, he explores colonial government and society, the authority of church and crown, and the ambitions that drove the fur trade in New France. Policy, belief, and daily hardship are set against a harsh northern la...