"This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and in the West Indies, from the arrival of the Breton, Norman and Basque fisherman on the Grand Banks around 1500 to the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. Professor Eccles depicts the establishment of Baroque civilization and the attempt to create a New Je ..."
"Volume III of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada."
The French In North America(Updated) 1500 -- 1783 by WilliamJohnEccles Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2010 by Fitzhenry And Whiteside ISBN-13: 978-1-55455-166-8, ISBN: 1-55455-166-8
" This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and the West Indies, from the arrival of the Breton, Norman and Basque fishermen on the Grand Banks around 1500 to the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. Professor Eccles depicts the establishment of Baroque civilization and the attempt of the establishmen ..."
Frontenac(1st Edition) The Courtier Governor by WilliamJohnEccles, Peter Moogk Paperback, 410 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-6750-3, ISBN: 0-8032-6750-9
"Matchless wit, richly evocative prose, and painstaking historical research were the hallmarks of our greatest historian of early Canada, W. J. Eccles. His masterpiece, Frontenac: The Courtier Governor, remains one of the most brilliant achievements in Canadian historical writing and the point of departure for anyone wanting to understand Canada. Eccles's central themes--French-English relations, First Nations issues, and unbridled poli ..."
"The Fur Trade Revisited is a collection of twenty-eight essays selected from the more than fifty presentations made at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1991. Essays contained in this important new interpretive work focus on the history, archaeology, and literature of a fascinating, growing area of scholarly investigation.Underscoring the work's multifaceted approach is an in ..."
Essays on New France(2nd Edition) by WilliamJohnEccles Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1988 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-540580-4, ISBN: 0-19-540580-3
"W.J. Eccles, the leading Anglo-Canadian social historian of New France, has here collected twelve important essays written over twenty-five years-a period in which he greatly enlarged the significance of his subject by relating New France to the rest of North America, to European imperialism, and to the indigenous peoples. Preceded by an interesting memoir of his career as a scholar, 'Forty Years Back', these essays discuss Francis Park ..."
"From Back Cover: This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. It presents new ideas about trade, diplomacy, and frontier society that have created a whole new school of thought about Canadian history."
"This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. The analysis and ideas in the first edition helped create a whole new school of thought about Canadian history. Over 50,000 copies have been used in classrooms in Canada and the United States in the decade since its publication. In this revised edition, the author updates the bibliography and adds new ideas advanced in the 1970s tha ..."
France in America,(1st Edition) (The New American Nation series) by WilliamJohnEccles Hardcover, 297 Pages, Published 1972 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-011152-6, ISBN: 0-06-011152-6
Sherrington(1st Edition) His Life and Thought by J. C. Eccles, W. C. Gibson Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1979 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-3-540-09063-2, ISBN: 3-540-09063-0