The Mississippi Valley Frontier
Author | : John Anthony Caruso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : French |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Anthony Caruso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : French |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel H. Usner Jr. |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807839965 |
In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton South. Usner begins by providing a chronological overview of events from French settlement of the area in 1699 to Spanish acquisition of West Florida after the Revolution. He then shows how early confrontations and transactions shaped the formation of Louisiana into a distinct colonial region with a social system based on mutual needs of subsistence. Usner's focus on commerce allows him to illuminate the motives in the contest for empire among the French, English, and Spanish, as well as to trace the personal networks of communication and exchange that existed among the territory's inhabitants. By revealing the economic and social world of early Louisianians, he lays the groundwork for a better understanding of later Southern society.
Author | : Lawrence Kinnaird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Mississippi River Valley |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Caruso, John Anthony |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : French |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carl J. Ekberg |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2014-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809333805 |
Dr. Ekberg's masterwork on the old French town south of St. Louis brings into sharp focus life in colonial America. Ekberg has rendered a rich portrait of community life on the most fascinating of American frontiers, the composite world of French Creoles and American Indians in the Mississippi Valley. This is an important book and a good read to boot. That's how Yale University's John Mack Faragher praised this book.
Author | : John Reda |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609091930 |
This original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of French villages that straddled the Mississippi River for nearly a century before it was divided by the treaties that ended the Seven Years' War in the early 1760s. Spain acquired the territory on the west side of the river and Great Britain the territory on the east. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris and the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the entire region was controlled by the United States, and the white inhabitants were transformed from subjects to citizens. By 1825, Indian claims to the land that had become the states of Illinois and Missouri were nearly all extinguished, and most of the Indians had moved west. John Reda focuses on the people behind the Illinois Country's transformation from a society based on the fur trade between Europeans, Indians, and mixed-race (métis) peoples to one based on the commodification of land and the development of commercial agriculture. Many of these people were white and became active participants in the development of local, state, and federal governmental institutions. But many were Indian or métis people who lost both their lands and livelihoods, or black people who arrived—and remained—in bondage. In From Furs to Farms, Reda rewrites early national American history to include the specific people and places that make the period far more complex and compelling than what is depicted in the standard narrative. This fascinating work will interest historians, students, and general readers of US history and Midwestern studies.
Author | : John W. Spencer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Black Hawk War, 1832 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Randolph Spears |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Mississippi River Valley |
ISBN | : |
The narrative of the founding of an empire, shorn of current myth, and enlivened by the thrilling adventures of discoverers, pioneers, frontiersmen, Indian fighters, and homemakers.
Author | : James Kendall Hosmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Mississippi River Valley |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert V. Haynes |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2010-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813139570 |
Originally inhabited by Native American tribes, territorial Mississippi has a complex history rife with fierce contention. Since 1540, when Hernando de Soto of Spain journeyed across the Atlantic and became the first European to stumble across its borders