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The bourgeois frontier : French towns, French traders, and American expansion /
Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion. The Seven Years War brought a...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Lamar series in western history
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The vanquished and the vanishing
- Constructing the house of Chouteau : St. Louis
- "We are well off that there are no Virginians in this quarter" : the two wests from 1763 to 1803
- Surviving the transition to American rule
- How the West was sold
- Beyond St. Louis : negotiating the course of empire
- Managing the tribe of Chouteau
- "Avec bien du regret" : the Americanization of Creole St. Louis and French Detroit
- "La conf<U+fffd>ed<U+fffd>eration perdue" : the legacy of francophone culture in mid-America
- Conclusion.
- Introduction: The vanquished and the vanishing
- Constructing the house of Chouteau : St. Louis
- "We are well off that there are no Virginians in this quarter" : the two wests from 1763 to 1803
- Surviving the transition to American rule
- How the West was sold
- Beyond St. Louis : negotiating the course of empire
- Managing the tribe of Chouteau
- "Avec bien du regret" : the Americanization of Creole St. Louis and French Detroit
- "La confédération perdue" : the legacy of francophone culture in mid-America
- Conclusion.