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The World, the Flesh, and the Devil : A History of Colonial St. Louis /
As Anglo-American colonists along the Atlantic seaboard began to protest British rule in the 1760s, a new settlement was emerging many miles west. St. Louis, founded simply as a French trading post, was expanding into a diverse global village. Few communities in eighteenth-century North America had...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, Mo. :
University of Missouri Press,
2011
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From France to the frontier
- Settling "Paincourt" : Indians, the fur trade, and farms
- "A strange mixture" : rulers, misrule, and unruly inhabitants in the 1760s
- Power dynamics and the Indian presence in St. Louis
- Sex, race, and empire : the peopling of St. Louis
- "The world, the flesh, and the devil" : conflicts over religion, alcohol, and authority
- A village in crisis : conflict and violence on the brink of war
- "L'annee du coup" : the "last day of St. Louis" and the Revolutionary War
- The struggles of the 1780s
- St. Louis in the 1790s : the enemies within and without
- "The devil take all" or "a happy change" ? : the end of European rule and the American takeover.