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History as they lived it : a social history of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois / Margaret Kimball Brown ; Carl J. Ekberg foreword.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Margaret Kimball.
- Series:
- Shawnee Books
- Shawnee books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prairie du Rocher (Ill.)--History.
- Prairie du Rocher (Ill.).
- Prairie du Rocher (Ill.)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Edition:
- Southern Illinois University Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, Illinois : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3341-4
- OCLC:
- 875134211
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