Author: Charles Van RavenswaayPublisher: Missouri History Museum
ISBN: 9780252019159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
St. Louis
Author: Charles Van RavenswaayPublisher: Missouri History Museum
ISBN: 9780252019159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
St. Louis Rising
Author: Carl J. EkbergPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with the contrarian thesis that French government officials and institutions shaped and structured early city society. Of the former, none did more than Louis St. Ange de Bellerive. His commitment to the Bourbon monarchy and to civil tranquility made him the prime mover as St. Louis emerged during the tumult following the French and Indian War. Drawing on new source materials, the authors delve into the complexities of politics, Indian affairs, slavery, and material culture that defined the city's founding period. Their alternative version of the oft-told tale uncovers the imperial realities--as personified by St. Ange--that truly governed in the Illinois Country of the time, and provide a trove of new information on everything from the fur trade to the arrival of the British and Spanish after the Seven Years' War.
History of Saint Louis City and County
Author: John Thomas ScharfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Publications
Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library
Author: Illinois State Historical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the Year ...
Author: Papers in Illinois History and Transactions
Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Lives of Fort de Chartres
Author: David MacDonaldPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809334615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2017 Fort de Chartres, built in 1719-1720 in the heart of what would become the American Midwest, embodied French colonial power for half a century. Lives of Fort de Chartres, by David MacDonald, details the French colonial experience in Illinois from 1720 to 1770 through vivid depictions of the places, people, and events around the fort and its neighboring villages. In the first section, MacDonald explores the fascinating history of French Illinois and the role of Fort de Chartres in this history, focusing on native peoples, settlers, slaves, soldiers, villages, trade routes, military administration, and the decline of French rule in Illinois. The second section profiles the fort’s twelve distinctive and often colorful commandants, who also served as administrative heads of French Illinois. These men’s strong personalities served them well when dealing simultaneously with troops, civilians, and Indians and their multifaceted cultures. In the third section, MacDonald presents ten thought-provoking biographies of people whose lives intersected with Fort de Chartres in various ways, from a Kaskaskia Indian woman known as “the Mother of French Illinois” to an ill-fated chicken thief and a European aristocrat. Subjects treated in the book include French–Native American relations, the fur trade, early Illinois agriculture, and tensions among different religious orders. Together, the biographies and historical narrative in the volume illuminate the challenges that shaped the French colonies in America. The site of Fort de Chartres, recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1966, still exists today as a testament to the ways in which French, British, Spanish, and American histories have intertwined. Both informative and entertaining, Lives of Fort de Chartres contributes to a more complete understanding of the French colonial experience in the Midwest and portrays a vital and vigorous community well worth our appreciation.