Chapters (16)
- WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- PRESCOTT
- WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT CHAPTER I THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIANS
- CHAPTER II EARLY YEARS
- CHAPTER III THE CHOICE OF A CAREER
- CHAPTER IV SUCCESS
- CHAPTER V IN MID CAREER
- CHAPTER VI THE LAST TEN YEARS
- CHAPTER VII "FERDINAND AND ISABELLA"—PRESCOTT'S STYLE
- CHAPTER VIII THE "CONQUEST OF MEXICO" AS LITERATURE AND AS HISTORY
- CHAPTER IX "THE CONQUEST OF PERU"—"PHILIP II."
- CHAPTER X PRESCOTT'S RANK AS AN HISTORIAN
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES:
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