Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He was abusive, arrogant, mocking. Clearly intending to bring down the La-niel government, he complained of Bi-dault's "refusal or evasion of negotiations" with the Viet Minh itself, taunted him with the cost to France in men and money of a "colonial war." He charged that the...
The connection between these incidents and the renowned teacher and scholar who is retiring this month may be a tenuous one, but it provides a sharp insight into the personality of the man who has placed the study of "Americana" in its proper historical perspective. For Arthur Schlesinger, more than...
Schlesinger first rose to national prominence with the publication of his doctoral thesis at Columbia in 1918, "The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution." Four years later, with "New View points in American History," he was to strike out on his own path in historical study. At that time scholars...
As every Canadian schoolboy knows, Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac was a celebrated hero of Canada's colonial era. Schoolbooks honor him as one of New France's greatest governors, a valorous Indian fighter and a strong-willed defender of Quebec against the marauding British colonists from...
A hotheaded, overbearing man, Frontenac quarreled constantly with other colonial officials, not only over administrative affairs but also to get more than his share of the graft from the rich fur trade. He was far less pugnacious with the Indians. Eccles claims that in the critical year of 1681 Frontenac...