Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman was an American historian who lived during the nineteenth century. He viewed democracy, the separation of church and state, and capitalism, including private land ownership, as the essential components of an ideal society. Parkman studied New France, commenting that the society was far from ideal, a place where democracy, Protestantism, an farming were thwarted by feudalism, the Church, and the military.
Although Parkman’s view of New France feudalism has been discounted, his work on feudalism has shaped the historiography on New France.