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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.
Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco.
All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban
areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings.
Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including
stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle,
and twentieth-century Los Angeles, "Frontier Cities" recovers the
history of these urban places and shows how, from the start,
natives and newcomers alike shared streets, buildings, and
interwoven lives. Not only do frontier cities embody the earliest
matrix of the American urban experience; they also testify to the
intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history.The
twelve essays in this collection paint compelling portraits of
frontier cities and their inhabitants: the French traders who
bypassed imperial regulations by throwing casks of brandy over the
wall to Indian customers in eighteenth-century Montreal; Isaac
Friedlander, San Francisco's "Grain King"; and Adrien de Pauger,
who designed the Vieux Carre in New Orleans. Exploring the economic
and political networks, imperial ambitions, and personal intimacies
of frontier city development, this collection demonstrates that
these cities followed no mythic line of settlement, nor did they
move lockstep through a certain pace or pattern of evolution. An
introduction puts the collection in historical context, and the
epilogue ponders the future of frontier cities in the midst of
contemporary globalization. With innovative concepts and a rich
selection of maps and images, "Frontier Cities" imparts a crucial
untold chapter in the construction of urban history and place.
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.
The degree to which shopping, or, more broadly, consumerism, is
both critiqued and defended in American society confirms the role
that commercial goods play in our daily lives. This collection of
essays provides case studies depicting selected aspects of this
engaging activity. The authors include several historians with
diverging specialties: an art historian, an anthropologist, an
environmental journalist, a geographer and urban planner, and
practicing artists. Each author demonstrates how a material culture
perspective—a focus on the relationship between people and their
things—can illuminate a specific corner of consumption.
Connecting the essays are concerns about the spaces in which
shopping occurs; about the experience of shopping itself, both
individual and social; and about its economic, environmental, and
personal downsides. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how a
material culture perspective on shopping yields insights into
multiple aspects of American culture. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press. Â
French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and
social practices contributed to the complex processes and
negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America
and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a
wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to
labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real
conceptualizations of "Frenchness" and "Frenchification," this
volume argues that cultural mobility was fundamental to the
development of French colonial societies and the collective
identities they housed. Cases of cultural formation and dislocation
in places as diverse as Quebec, the Illinois Country, Detroit,
Haiti, Acadia, New England, and France itself demonstrate the broad
variability of French cultural mobility that took place throughout
this massive geographical space. Nevertheless, these communities
shared the same cultural root in the midst of socially and
politically fluid landscapes, where cultural mobility came to
define, and indeed sustain, communal and individual identities in
French North America and the Atlantic World. Drawing on innovative
new scholarship on Louisiana and New Orleans, the editors and
contributors to French Connections look to refocus the conversation
surrounding French colonial interconnectivity by thinking about
mobility as a constitutive condition of culture; from this
perspective, separate "spheres" of French colonial culture merge to
reveal a broader, more cohesive cultural world. The comprehensive
scope of this collection will attract scholars of French North
America, early American history, Atlantic World history, Caribbean
studies, Canadian studies, and frontier studies. With essays from
established, award-winning scholars such as Brett Rushforth, Leslie
Choquette, Jay Gitlin, and Christopher Hodson as well as from new,
progressive thinkers such as Mairi Cowan, William Brown, Karen L.
Marrero, and Robert D. Taber, French Connections promises to
generate interest and value across an extensive and diverse range
of concentrations.
French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and
social practices contributed to the complex processes and
negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America
and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a
wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to
labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real
conceptualizations of "Frenchness" and "Frenchification", this
volume argues that cultural mobility was fundamental to the
development of French colonial societies and the collective
identities they housed. Cases of cultural formation and dislocation
in places as diverse as Quebec, the Illinois Country, Detroit,
Haiti, Acadia, New England, and France itself demonstrate the broad
variability of French cultural mobility that took place throughout
this massive geographical space. Nevertheless, these communities
shared the same cultural root in the midst of socially and
politically fluid landscapes, where cultural mobility came to
define, and indeed sustain, communal and individual identities in
French North America and the Atlantic World. Drawing on innovative
new scholarship on Louisiana and New Orleans, the editors and
contributors to French Connections look to refocus the conversation
surrounding French colonial interconnectivity by thinking about
mobility as a constitutive condition of culture; from this
perspective, separate "spheres" of French colonial culture merge to
reveal a broader, more cohesive cultural world. The comprehensive
scope of this collection will attract scholars of French North
America, early American history, Atlantic World history, Caribbean
studies, Canadian studies, and frontier studies. With essays from
established, award-winning scholars such as Brett Rushforth, Leslie
Choquette, Jay Gitlin, and Christopher Hodson as well as from new,
progressive thinkers such as Mairi Cowan, William Brown, Karen L.
Marrero, and Robert D. Taber, French Connections promises to
generate interest and value across an extensive and diverse range
of concentrations.
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.
The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting
new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this
field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the
savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the
frontier as a steadily advancing source of democracy and social
renewal. But now historians and even the merchants of popular
culture are reshaping our views of the frontier and the West by
taking up a rich array of new subjects, including the stories of
diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. A new
generation of scholars is reformulating the broader questions also:
What was the significance of the frontier in American history? What
are the bases of western identity? What themes connect the
twentieth-century West to its more distant past? The transformation
of western history continues to be an open-ended, turbulent
process. The original essays in this volume are reports from the
frontier of change. In their diverging assumptions and conclusions,
they reflect the vitality of this field. They succeed when they
make the case for new questions and suggest possible answers. They
advocate no single agenda. But taken together they well represent
the passion and high craft with which scholars are creating a new
western history.
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A Journey to Ohio in 1810 (Paperback)
Margaret Van Horn Dwight; Edited by Max Farrand; Introduction by Max Farrand, Jay Gitlin
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"Here is a valuable and rare document providing a woman's
perspective on a western passage that has received little attention
from historians. Margaret Dwight's journal gives us a first-hand
account that goes way beyond the usual reckoning of miles traveled
and notes on the weather. She provides an intimate view of the
people on the trail. From her observations we get a sense of the
back-country settlements of Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1810, the
language, the sounds, and even the smells of this early American
West. Her journal is full of witty and occasionally sarcastic
remarks. For all her prejudices and self-admitted pride, she
emerges as a likeable person and valuable guide."-Jay Gitlin, in
his introduction. In his introduction, Jay Gitlin, a professor of
history at Yale University, says more about Margaret Van Horn
Dwight's wagon journey in 1810 from New Haven, Connecticut, to
Warren, Ohio, where she would find a husband, bear thirteen
children, and die in middle-age.
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