The Mentor: The Contest for North America, Vol. 1, No. 35, Serial No. 35

Albert Bushnell HartProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0
Word count
44K words
Chapters
5

Tags

Other World History North American HistoryHistorical ReappraisalGeopoliticsMilitary StrategyColonial RivalryPopular NarrativeWorld OrderSocial ObservationAnglo-French Conflict

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Mentor: The Contest for North America, Vol. 1, No. 35, Serial No. 35 by HartAuthor: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943,Language: English, Class: E186: History: America: Colonial History (1607-1775), Release Date: Sep 9, 2015

Editor's review

This is an issue of The Mentor magazine published around 1913, written by Harvard historian Albert Bushnell Hart, focusing on the long contest between Britain and France for control of the North American continent in the 17th and 18th centuries. As a popular history for general readers, it traces colonial wars, frontier conflicts and imperial rivalry in clear, compact prose, making it a suitable English-language introduction to early American colonial history. Its value lies not in new sources or arguments but in showing how early 20th-century American historiography presented this period to a popular audience; readers gain a basic factual framework as well as a sense of the tone and outlook of history writing of that era. It is best read as a period piece of popularization rather than a contemporary scholarly monograph. Suited to readers interested in early American history and Anglo-French colonial rivalry who want to read in short sittings, and to those using it as extensive reading material in English history.

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Reading tips

  1. Read through once to grasp the timeline of Anglo-French rivalry, then revisit the key wars and treaty turning points.
  2. Keep a map of colonial North America at hand to match place names to the geography.
  3. Treat it as English extensive reading and, after each issue, summarize the core argument in three to five sentences.
  4. Note the author's tone and value judgments, and reflect on the characteristics of popular history writing a century ago.

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Contents

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FAQ

Is this book a complete monograph on North American colonial history? No. It is a single issue of The Mentor magazine, limited in length, giving an overview of the main lines of the Anglo-French contest for North America. It is popularization rather than a comprehensive scholarly monograph, suitable as an introduction or supplementary reading.
What English level is needed to read this book? The text is early 20th-century popular history writing in English, with fairly regular sentence structure and vocabulary mostly of historical and geographical terms. Readers with college-level English reading ability should get through it smoothly; a reference work helps with place names and war names.
Is the content still accurate today? As a popular history text a century old, its basic factual framework still has reference value, but its perspective, terminology and some explanations bear clear period limitations. Read it alongside contemporary historiography rather than as a sole authority.

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About the author

Albert Bushnell Hart Author · American · 1854–1943

Albert Bushnell Hart (1854–1943) was an American historian and scholar who taught history and government at Harvard University for 43 years and served as president of the American Historical Association in 1909. He wrote some one hundred works, including Formation of the Union and The Southern South, and edited the 28-volume American Nation series. Eight of his works are held here, mostly on early American history—the founding of the Union, the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the contest for North America—alongside popular pieces on figures such as Benjamin Franklin and on the Uncle Sam image, combining scholarly writing with public history. He mentored scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois.