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Name: The White and the Gold

Full name: The White and the Gold: The French Regime in Canada

Author: Thomas B. Costain
Year: 1954
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Free books, History
Culture: Canada

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ISBNs:
9780385045261
0385045263

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 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."

"Few writers could re-create this period so vividly and intimately as has Thomas B. Costain." (San Francisco Inquirer)