The White and the Gold: The French Regime in Canada
by Thomas B. Costain
Canadian history series: Doubleday (1)
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This is the fascinating story of the French regime in Canada. Few periods in the history of North America can equal it for romance and color, drama and suspense, great human courage and far-seeing aspiration. Costain, who writes history in the terms of the people who lived it, wrote of this book: "Almost from the first I found myself caught in the spell of these courageous, colorful, cruel days. But whenever I found myself guilty of overstressing the romantic side of the picture and show more forgetful of the more prosaic life beneath, I tried to balance the scales more properly. This] is . . . a conscientious effort at a balanced picture of a period which was brave, bizarre, fanatical, lyrical, lusty, and, in fact, rather completely unbalanced." show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1954
- People/Characters
- Jacques Cartier; Samuel de Champlain
- Important places
- Canada; New France
- Dedication
- To All My Friends in Canada
- First words
- Introduction: There have been many histories of Canada, and some of them have been truly fine, but it seemed to a group of writers, all of whom were Canadians or of Canadian stock, who met a few years ago, that the time had ... (show all)come for something different.
It may seem strange to begin a history of Canada in an English city, a bustling maritime center of narrow streets in a pocket the hills where the Avon joins the Severn. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In the process a new spirit of rapid change would be loosed in the world.
- Original language
- English
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- English, French
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 22
