
French St. Louis
Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1. Empire by Collaboration
- 2. Between Obligation and Opportunity
- 3. The Capital of St. Louis
- 4. Fashioning Identities on the Frontier
- Part 2
- 5. You Are Who You Trade With
- 6. The Creole Frontier
- Part 3
- 7. Visualizing Early St. Louis
- 8. The View from Upper Louisiana
- Part 4
- 9. Louis Cortambert and l’Esprit français in St. Louis in 1854
- 10. The French Presence in St. Louis Today
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
- About Jay Gitlin
- About Robert Michael Morrissey
- About Peter J. Kastor
- Series List