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French St. Louis : landscape, contexts, and legacy /
"French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history"--
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| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization
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"French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history"-- 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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xii, 319 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781496206848 1496206843 9781496234667 1496234669 |