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7 produkter
Bourgeois Frontier
French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion
Av Jay Gitlin
Häftad, 2010
506 kr
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Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion. The Seven Years War brought …
Under an Open Sky
Rethinking America's Western Past
Av William Cronon, George Miles m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
324 kr
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The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the frontier as a steadily advancing source …
Frontier Cities
Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire
Av Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
920 kr
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Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, …
Frontier Cities
Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire
Av Jay, Gitlin, Jay Gitlin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
686 kr
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Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, …
French St. Louis
Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
Av Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
766 kr
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A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this …
French St. Louis
Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
Av Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
358 kr
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A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this …
French St. Louis
Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
Av Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
401 kr
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A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this …
