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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813372903321

Autore

Brown Margaret Kimball

Titolo

History as they lived it : a social history of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois / / Margaret Kimball Brown ; Carl J. Ekberg foreword

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8093-3341-4

Edizione

[Southern Illinois University Press edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

Shawnee books

Altri autori (Persone)

EkbergCarl J

Disciplina

977.3/92

Soggetti

Prairie du Rocher (Ill.) History

Prairie du Rocher (Ill.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The French regime: the beginnings -- Governance in the Illinois -- Land, life, and labor -- Prairie du Rocher under the French regime -- Under three flags -- Old and new -- Becoming American -- On into a new century -- Present and future.

Sommario/riassunto

"History as They Lived It deserves to be placed within the rich context of Illinois Country historiography going back more than a century. . . . It brings together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Country need such a book."-from the foreword by Carl J. Ekberg Settled in 1722, Prairie du Rocher was at the geographic center of a French colony in the Mississippi Valley, which also included other villages in what is now Illinois and Missouri: Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Fort de Chartres, St. Philippe, Ste. Genevieve, and St. Lou