St. Louis Rising
The French Regime of Louis St. Ange De Bellerive
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 18 March 2015
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252080616
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 235x156x23 mm
- Weight 594 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 color photographs, 23 black and white photographs, 8 maps 0
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Long description:
The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Lacl--de 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.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Maps, Plans, and Illustrations
Preface
Chronology
Introduction: Beyond the Lacl--de-Chouteau Legend
Part 1. St. Ange de Bellerive and the Illinois Country
1. Fort d'Orleans and the Grotton---St. Ange Family
2. The Rise of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive
3. The Illinois Country in Transition, 1763---1765
4. Commandant St. Ange de Bellerive
5. The Village Emerges
Part II. Contours of Village Life
6. Logs and Stones: Early St. Louis Buildings
7. The Coutume de Paris Rules
8. Slaves: African and Indian
9. In Small Things Forgotten
10. Foundations of the St. Louis Fur Trade
11. End of an Era
Color Illustrations
Conclusion: St. Louis and the Wider World
Appendix A. St. Louis Counts
Appendix B. St. Louis Indian Slave Census, 1770
Notes
Index
