French St. Louis (eBook, ePUB)

Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
Redaktion: Gitlin, Jay; Kastor, Peter J.; Morrissey, Robert Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this collection contextualize St. Louis, exploring French-Native relations, the agency of empire in the Illinois Country, the role of women in "mapping" the French colonial world, fashion and identity, and commodities and exchange in St. Louis as part of a broader politics of consumption in colonial America. The collection also provides a comparative perspective on America's two great Creole cities, St. Louis and New Orleans. Lastly, it looks at the Frenchness of St. Louis in the nineteenth century and the present.French St. Louis recasts the history of St. Louis and reimagines regional development in the early American republic, shedding light on its francophone history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496227379
• Artikelnr.: 72426480

Autorenporträt

Jay Gitlin is a senior lecturer in history at Yale University. He is the author of The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion. Robert Michael Morrissey is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country. Peter J. Kastor is Samuel K. Eddy Professor and a professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of William Clark’s World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A French City in North America
Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey, and Peter J. Kastor
Part 1. Fashioning a Colonial Place: St. Louis between Empire and Frontier
1. Empire by Collaboration: St. Louis, the Illinois Country, and the French
Colonial Empire
Robert Michael Morrissey
2. Between Obligation and Opportunity: St. Louis, Women, and Transcolonial
Networks, 1764–1800
Robert Englebert
3. The Capital of St. Louis: From Indian Trade to American Territory,
1764–1825
J. Frederick Fausz
4. Fashioning Identities on the Frontier: Clothing, Culture, and Choice in
Early St. Louis
Patricia Cleary
Part 2. St. Louis and New Orleans: A Regional Perspective
5. You Are Who You Trade With: Why Antebellum St. Louis Industrialized and
New Orleans Didn’t
Lawrence N. Powell
6. The Creole Frontier: Free People of Color in St. Louis and along the
French Mississippi Corridor, 1800–1870
Andrew N. Wegmann
Part 3. Visualizing Place: New Sources and Resources for Telling the Story
of St. Louis
7. Visualizing Early St. Louis
Robert J. Moore Jr.
8. The View from Upper Louisiana: Pierre-Clément de Laussat’s Concerns and
Contacts, 1803–1804
John H. Lawrence
Part 4. Maintaining the French Connection of St. Louis
9. Louis Cortambert and l’Esprit français in St. Louis in 1854
Anne Juneau Craver
10. The French Presence in St. Louis Today
Lionel Cuillé
Conclusion: The Founding and Lasting Significance of St. Louis
Jay Gitlin
Contributors
Index