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This is the second of two Library of America volumes (the companion volume&nbsphere) presenting, in compact form, all seven parts of Francis Parkman&8217s monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman&8217s &8220history of the American forest&8221 is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly describes. The story reaches its climax with the fatal confrontation of two great commanders at Quebec&8217s Plains of Abraham&8212and a daring stratagem that would determine the future of a continent.Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV&nbsp(1877) details how France might have won her imperial struggle with England. Frontenac, a courtier who was made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony&8217s brightest era of growth and influence. Had Canada&8217s later governors possessed his administrative skill and personal force, his sense of diplomacy and political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion.England&8217s American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World and the New, declined from its greatness of the late seventeenth century. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in&nbspA Half-Century of Conflict&nbsp(1892), these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the colonies for the American Revolution.In&nbspMontcalm and Wolfe&nbsp(1884) Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the two great French and English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, and their unique position. In this imperial war of European powers we also begin to see the American figures&8212Benjamin Franklin, George Washington&8212soon to occupy a historical stage of their own.LIBRARY OF AMERICA&nbspis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation&8217s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America&8217s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.