Woodslane | Book - 9780252038976

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ISBN-13: 9780252038976
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Carl J. Ekberg, By Sharon K. Person
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Local release date: 14/05/2015
Format: Hardback 360 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]

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Google Preview: The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness.'' St. Louis Rising ''overturns such gauzy myths with the contrarian thesis that French government officials and institutions shaped and structured early city society. Of the former, none did more than Louis St. Ange de Bellerive. His commitment to the Bourbon monarchy and to civil tranquility made him the prime mover as St. Louis emerged during the tumult following the French and Indian War. Drawing on new source materials, the authors delve into the complexities of politics, Indian affairs, slavery, and material culture that defined the city's founding period. Their alternative version of the oft-told tale uncovers the imperial realities--as personified by St. Ange--that truly governed in the Illinois Country of the time, and provide a trove of new information on everything from the fur trade to the arrival of the British and Spanish after the Seven Years' War.; ''Masterfully well researched! . . . The authors do a great job of including the larger imperial story--legal codes, notaries, trade rules and regulations, and officials like St. Ange and Labuxiere--in the founding story. There is nuance and detail here that will impress any historian.'' --Robert Morrissey, author of ''Bottomlands, Borderlands: Empires and Identities in the 18th Century Illinois Country''; Google Preview content