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The Upper Country : French enterprise in the colonial Great Lakes
- Title
- The Upper Country : French enterprise in the colonial Great Lakes / Claiborne A. Skinner.
- Author
- Skinner, Claiborne A.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | F1030 .S529 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 202 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur traders of popular myth as agents of a hard-nosed, often ruthless, imperial endeavor. Skinner's engaging narrative takes the reader through daily life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac, illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at Peoria, and explains how France's New World adventurism played a role in the outbreak of the Seven Years War and the beginning of the modern era. In this story, many of the traditional heroes and villains of American history take on surprising roles. The last Stuart kings of England seem shrewd and even human; George Washington makes his debut appearance on the stage of history by assassinating a French officer and plunging Europe into the first truly global war. From unthinkable hardship to dreams of fur trade profits, this fascinating exploration sheds new light on France and its imperial venture into the Great Lakes"--Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Regional perspectives on early America
- Uniform Title
- Regional perspectives on early America.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-194) and index.
- Contents
- The fur trade and New France to 1676 -- Frontenac and La Salle, 1673-1682 -- The great turtle and the rock, 1683-1687 -- War in the wilderness, 1687-1701 -- The foxes, 1701-1736 -- Illinois and the Chickasaw wars, 1700-1740 -- A country more worth of his majesty's attention, 1736-1754 -- A few acres of snow, 1710-1754.
- ISBN
- 9780801888373
- 0801888379
- 9780801888380
- 0801888387
- LCCN
- 2007040154
- OCLC
- ocn173683661
- 173683661
- SCSB-1479121
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library