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The Bourgeois Frontier - French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion (Paperback)
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The Bourgeois Frontier - French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion (Paperback)
Series: The Lamar Series in Western History
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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 an end to the French colonial
enterprise in North America, but the French in towns such as New
Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit survived the transition to American
rule. French traders from Mid-America such as the Chouteaus and
Robidouxs of St. Louis then became agents of change in the West,
perfecting a strategy of "middle grounding" by pursuing alliances
within Indian and Mexican communities in advance of American
settlement and re-investing fur trade profits in land, town sites,
banks, and transportation. "The Bourgeois Frontier" provides the
missing French connection between the urban Midwest and western
expansion.
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