Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Book Prize for the Best Book on Louisiana History, "French Roots in the Illinois Country" creates an entirely new picture of the Illinois country as a single ethnic, economic, and cultural entity. Focusing on the French Creole communities along the Mississippi River, Carl J. Ekberg shows how land use practices such as medieval-style open-field agriculture intersected with economic and social issues ranging from the flour trade between Illinois and New Orleans to the significance of the different mentalities of French Creoles and Anglo-Americans.
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"A scholar's delight... Ekberg is the first historian to call attention to the unique pattern of French colonial settlement in Illinois." -- John Mack Faragher, American Historical Review "An extraordinarily learned and yet most readable book... A revolutionary book ... [that] sheds subtle light on the significant differences between the French and English colonial experiences." -- Morris S. Arnold, Louisiana History "This book will remain the definitive study on this subject for a long time. It should be required reading for anyone, scholar or layperson, curious about life in the French settlements in North America." -- Pierre Lebeau, Journal of Illinois History ADVANCE PRAISE "A great comprehensive revisionist work on colonial Illinois, this should become a brisk seller early on and remain in demand for many years to come. Quite simply, no respectable library--public, college, or university--should be without this book." -- Robert McColley, author of Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
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French Canadian families lived separately, as Peter Kalm, a Swedish (born an ethnic Finn) traveler and diarist, observed; each family settled independently on its own elongated parcel of land. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
communal fencing, flour downriver, cadastral pattern, arable strips, arpent square, franc alleu, agricultural fencing, calendrier agricole, nuclear villages, fencing regulations, eighty arpents, flour shipments, fifty arpents, ribbon farms, square arpents, manorial dues, two arpents, vaine pâture, four arpents, open arable fields, local habitants, loo livres, régime seigneurial, alluvial bottomlands, communal agriculture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Lawrence Valley, Fort de Chartres, North America, Mississippi River, Prairie du Chien, French Canadian, Upper Louisiana, Green Bay, Spanish Illinois, French Creole, Prairie du Rocher, Grand Champ, French Canada, Royal Indies Company, Lower Louisiana, United States, John Reynolds, New Bourbon, Marc Bloch, Arkansas Post, Ohio Valley, Lawrence River, New France, American Revolution New!
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French Canadian families lived separately, as Peter Kalm, a Swedish (born an ethnic Finn) traveler and diarist, observed; each family settled independently on its own elongated parcel of land. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
communal fencing, flour downriver, cadastral pattern, arable strips, arpent square, franc alleu, agricultural fencing, calendrier agricole, nuclear villages, fencing regulations, eighty arpents, flour shipments, fifty arpents, ribbon farms, square arpents, manorial dues, two arpents, vaine pâture, four arpents, open arable fields, local habitants, loo livres, régime seigneurial, alluvial bottomlands, communal agriculture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Lawrence Valley, Fort de Chartres, North America, Mississippi River, Prairie du Chien, French Canadian, Upper Louisiana, Green Bay, Spanish Illinois, French Creole, Prairie du Rocher, Grand Champ, French Canada, Royal Indies Company, Lower Louisiana, United States, John Reynolds, New Bourbon, Marc Bloch, Arkansas Post, Ohio Valley, Lawrence River, New France, American Revolution New!
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- Views Of Louisiana (Notable American Authors Series - Part I) by Henry Marie Brackenridge on 12 pages
- American Revolution (Wars That Changed the World) by Philip Clark on 8 pages
- History Of Louisiana by Le Page Du Pratz on 6 pages
- An Account of Upper Louisiana by Nicolas De Fineils on 5 pages
- Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier by Carl J. Ekberg on 5 pages
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- Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763-1803 by Gilbert C. Din on page 232, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From French Community to Missouri Town: Ste. Genevieve in the Nineteenth Century by Bonnie Stepenoff on page 122, and Back Matter
- The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Colin G. Calloway in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Indiana Territory, 1800-2000: A Bicentennial Perspective by Darrel E. Bigham on page 39, and page 45
- The French Overseas Empire by Frederick Quinn on page 82
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