{"product_id":"french-st-louis-9781496234667","title":"French St. Louis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrench St. Louis\u003c\/i\u003e recasts the history of St. Louis and reimagines regional development in the early American republic, shedding light on its francopho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most refreshing and illuminating aspects of this collection is the inclusion of women not merely as individual characters but as intrinsic parts of the history and historiography. . . . Patricia Cleary’s chapter on fashion is exemplary in portraying St. Louis’s rich economic, political, and cultural history and its connections to far-flung places. . . . Delightful and deeply insightful. Its chapters speak to one another, creating a collection that holds together surprisingly well. One could read the book from cover to cover, finding connections.”—Kathleen DuVal, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“This meticulously edited collection reframes the ongoing conversation on the often-confusing history of a special urban landscape—St. Louis—broadening its diverse meaning and multicultural impact through a model lens by which all early American cities may be profitably studied.”—John Neal Hoover, author of \u003ci\u003eA Nation, a City, and Its First Library: Americana at the St. Louis Mercantile Library for 175 Years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eFrench St. Louis\u003c\/i\u003e] can foster a better understanding of our present and our future for all of us.\"—\u003ci\u003eMissouri Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume is a commendable venture to tell the French story of the founding of interior America. The project's inception during the sestercentennial year of St. Louis's founding yielded fruitful results with the recent publication of this book. A valuable read for American historians.\"—Dan Shannon, \u003ci\u003eDenver Posse of Westerners\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A French City in North America\u003cbr\u003e Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey, and Peter J. Kastor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1. Fashioning a Colonial Place: St. Louis between Empire and Frontier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Empire by Collaboration: St. Louis, the Illinois Country, and the French Colonial Empire\u003cbr\u003e Robert Michael Morrissey\u003cbr\u003e 2. Between Obligation and Opportunity: St. Louis, Women, and Transcolonial Networks, 1764–1800\u003cbr\u003e Robert Englebert\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Capital of St. Louis: From Indian Trade to American Territory, 1764–1825\u003cbr\u003e J. Frederick Fausz\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fashioning Identities on the Frontier: Clothing, Culture, and Choice in Early St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e Patricia Cleary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2. St. Louis and New Orleans: A Regional Perspective\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. You Are Who You Trade With: Why Antebellum St. Louis Industrialized and New Orleans Didn’t\u003cbr\u003e Lawrence N. Powell\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Creole Frontier: Free People of Color in St. Louis and along the French Mississippi Corridor, 1800–1870\u003cbr\u003e Andrew N. Wegmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3. Visualizing Place: New Sources and Resources for Telling the Story of St. Louis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Visualizing Early St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e Robert J. Moore Jr.\u003cbr\u003e 8. The View from Upper Louisiana: Pierre-Clément de Laussat’s Concerns and Contacts, 1803–1804\u003cbr\u003e John H. Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4. Maintaining the French Connection of St. Louis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Louis Cortambert and \u003ci\u003el’Esprit français\u003c\/i\u003e in St. Louis in 1854\u003cbr\u003e Anne Juneau Craver\u003cbr\u003e 10. The French Presence in St. Louis Today\u003cbr\u003e Lionel Cuillé\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Founding and Lasting Significance of St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e Jay Gitlin\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409243578711,"sku":"9781496234667","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496234667.jpg?v=1730506117","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/french-st-louis-9781496234667","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}