audiobook Early History of the Southwest through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries: A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century by Albrecht Classen in History

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This updated volume of Representative Americans highlights three generations of colonial Americans―men and women who founded; shaped; and coined traditions of this country. This is a glimpse into a time of empire and frontier; religion; and science. The breadth of this experience is represented in the book's three sections. "Pathmarkers of the Empire" are represented in the first section. Captain John Smith and Nathaniel Bacon; though living half a century apart; were frontier soldiers shaping relations between Native and European cultures. William Bradford and William Penn came to America; also half a century apart; hoping to found a community of the righteous. In the book's second section; "Swords of Empire;" the imperial; triangular contest among Britian; France; and Spain for supremacy in the New World is explored. "In the vanguard of the empire were the fortune hunters;" Risjord writes. Among these "Caesars of the Forest" were Pierre Esprit Radisson and his merchant brother-in-law Medard Chouart who traversed the wilds of Canada in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. The book's final section; "Bridges of Empire;" presents; among others; Cotton Mather and James Logan; who stood poised between an older order of religious humility and a newer one of political will which would later blossom into national identity.