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French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.
List of contents
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Acknowledgments
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 1. Empire by Collaboration: St. Louis, the Illinois Country, and the French Colonial Empire
Robert Michael Morrissey
2. Between Obligation and Opportunity: St. Louis, Women, and Transcolonial Networks, 1764–1800
Robert Englebert
3. The Capital of St. Louis: From Indian Trade to American Territory, 1764–1825
J. Frederick Fausz
4. 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 5. You Are Who You Trade With: Why Antebellum St. Louis Industrialized and New Orleans Didn’t
Lawrence N. Powell
6. 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 7. Visualizing Early St. Louis
Robert J. Moore Jr.
8. 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 9. Louis Cortambert and
l’Esprit français in St. Louis in 1854
Anne Juneau Craver
10. The French Presence in St. Louis Today
Lionel Cuillé
Conclusion: The Founding and Lasting Significance of St. Louis
Jay Gitlin
Contributors
Index
About the author
Jay Gitlin is a senior lecturer in history at Yale University. He is the author of
The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion.
Robert Michael Morrissey is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois. He is the author of
Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country.
Peter J. Kastor is Samuel K. Eddy Professor and a professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of
William Clark’s World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns.
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French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.
