This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... VII. The French And Indian Barriers, 1600-1765 General Reading Guide, 106, 108-110, 147-148. Channing, History of the United States, II, chs. 5, 18, 19 (pp. 131-154; 527-603). Thwaites, France in America, American Nation, VII. (Useful bibliography in ch. 19.) Greene, Provincial America, American Nation, VI, chs. 7-10. Parkman, France and England in North America (12 vols). The chronological order is given in Thwaites, France in America, 297; edition cited below is 1898. Winsor, Cartier to Frontenac., Mississippi Basin., Narrative and Critical History of America, IV, V. C. H. Mcllwain (Ed.), Wraxall's Abridgment of the New York State Indian Records, 1678 to 1751. Ogg, Opening of the Mississippi, chs. 3-7. Avery, History of the United States, II, 1-21; HI, 155 191,309-328; IV. (Useful maps and illustrations.) F. J. Turner, Rise and Fall of New France, in Chautau quan, XXIV, 31-34, 295-300. (Brief sketch.) Significance of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes Basin Brigham, Geographic Influences in American History, chs. 4-6. Van Hise, Conservation of Natural Resources, 271-274. Powell, Physiographic Regions, 82-86. Shaler, America, I. Winsor, Mississippi Basin, 4-32. Ogg, Opening of the Mississippi, 1-7; and Growth of Population in the Mississippi Valley, in World To-Day (February, 1905), III, 186-190. F. J. Turner, The Middle West, in International Monthly (December, 1901), IV, 794-798., Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History, in Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1910. H. P. Judson, in N. S. Shaler Ed., United States, I, chs. 3, 5. A. B. Hart, Future of the Mississippi Valley, in Harper's Monthly (February, 1900), C, 413. Exploration and Indian Trade Parkman, Frontenac; La Salle;...

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Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts straight." -From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher