In addition to assessing the influence of Parkman's development and personality on his histories, the author comments on Parkman's relationship to basic social and cultural issues of the nineteenth century. These include the slavery question, Native American issues, expansion of the suffrage to new groups including women, and anti-Catholicism. Illustrated. One on the American Studies Series edited by William H. Goetzmann. 236 pages, bibliographical notes, index. Dust jacket and book are in Fine condition.

Historians, Biography, Western Americana.