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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Corporate Author: A Great City From the Start : the Founding and Lasting Significance of St. Louis (Symposium)
Contributors: Gitlin, Jay, (Editor), Morrissey, Robert Michael, (Editor), Kastor, Peter J., (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Series:France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A French city in North America / Jay Gitlin, Peter J. Kastor, and Robert Michael Morrissey
  • Fashioning a colonial place : St. Louis between empire and frontier
  • Empire by collaboration : St. Louis, the Illinois Country, and the French colonial empire / Robert Michael Morrissey
  • Between obligation and opportunity : St. Louis, women, and transcolonial networks, 1764-1800 / Robert Englebert
  • The capital of St. Louis : from Indian trade to American territory, 1764-1825 / J. Frederick Fausz
  • Fashioning identities on the frontier : clothing, culture, and choice in early St. Louis / Patricia Cleary
  • St. Louis and New Orleans : a regional perspective
  • You are who you trade with : why antebellum St. Louis industrialized and New Orleans didn't / Lawrence Powell
  • The Creole frontier : free people of color in St. Louis and along the French Mississippi Corridor, 1800-1870 / Andrew N. Wegmann
  • Visualizing place : new sources and resources for telling the story of St. Louis
  • Visualizing early St. Louis / Robert J. Moore Jr.
  • The view from Upper Louisiana : Pierre Clement Laussat's concerns and contacts, 1803-1804 / John Lawrence
  • Maintaining the French connection of St. Louis
  • Louis Cortambert and l'eesprit fran<U+fffd>cais in St. Louis in 1854 / Anne Juneau Craver
  • The French presence in St. Louis today / Lionel Cuill<U+fffd>e
  • Conclusion: Je me souviens : lessons for thinking about the significance of the founding of St. Louis / Jay Gitlin.
  • 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. Empire by collaboration : St. Louis, the Illinois Country, and the French colonial empire / Robert Michael Morrissey
  • Between obligation and opportunity : St. Louis, women, and transcolonial networks, 1764-1800 / Robert Englebert
  • The capital of St. Louis : from Indian trade to American territory, 1764-1825 / J. Frederick Fausz
  • 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. You are who you trade with : why antebellum St. Louis industrialized and New Orleans didn't / Lawrence Powell
  • 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. Visualizing early St. Louis / Robert J. Moore Jr.
  • 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. Louis Cortambert and l'esprit français in St. Louis in 1854 / Anne Juneau Craver
  • The French presence in St. Louis today / Lionel Cuillé
  • Conclusion: The founding and lasting significance of St. Louis / Jay Gitlin.