LEADER 03900nam 2200577 450 001 9910825257203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-5702-4 010 $a1-60909-193-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501757020 035 $a(CKB)4100000001038133 035 $a(OCoLC)1017612948 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse61366 035 $a(DE-B1597)572277 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501757020 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4903978 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11463667 035 $a(OCoLC)1011164815 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4903978 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001038133 100 $a20171201h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom furs to farms $ethe transformation of the Mississippi Valley, 1762-1825 /$fJohn Reda 210 1$aDekalb, Illinois :$cNorthern Illinois University Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages :)$cmaps ; 225 1 $aEarly American Places 311 $a0-87580-499-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 The Colonial Eighteenth Century in the Illinois Country -- $t2 The Louisiana Purchase, Territorial Government, and Contested Lands -- $t3 From Tippecanoe to Portage des Sioux: The Wars of 1812 -- $t4 Statehood for Illinois and Missouri -- $t5 After Statehood: Indian Removal, the Fur Trade, and Slavery -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of French villages that straddled the Mississippi River for nearly a century before it was divided by the treaties that ended the Seven Years' War in the early 1760s. Spain acquired the territory on the west side of the river and Great Britain the territory on the east. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris and the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the entire region was controlled by the United States, and the white inhabitants were transformed from subjects to citizens.By 1825, Indian claims to the land that had become the states of Illinois and Missouri were nearly all extinguished, and most of the Indians had moved west. John Reda focuses on the people behind the Illinois Country's transformation from a society based on the fur trade between Europeans, Indians, and mixed-race (métis) peoples to one based on the commodification of land and the development of commercial agriculture. Many of these people were white and became active participants in the development of local, state, and federal governmental institutions. But many were Indian or métis people who lost both their lands and livelihoods, or black people who arrived?and remained?in bondage. In From Furs to Farms, Reda rewrites early national American history to include the specific people and places that make the period far more complex and compelling than what is depicted in the standard narrative. This fascinating work will interest historians, students, and general readers of US history and Midwestern studies. 410 0$aEarly American places. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)$2bisacsh 607 $aMississippi River Valley$xHistory$yTo 1803 607 $aMississippi River Valley$xHistory$y1803-1865 610 $aIllinois Country, Mississippi River, Seven Years' War, Treaty of Paris, Louisiana Purchase, métis people. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). 676 $a977.02 700 $aReda$b John$01660389 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825257203321 996 $aFrom furs to farms$94015563 997 $aUNINA