The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780300168037

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by Jay Gitlin (Author)

"Gitlin's comprehensive portrait of mid-America's Francophone merchants demonstrates their importance as fur traders, town builders and advance agents of American empire. It adds a valuable new dimension to the story of national expansion and belongs on every western American history bookshelf."-William E. Foley, coauthor of The First Chouteaus

Author Biography

Jay Gitlin is lecturer, Department of History, Yale University, and associate director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.

Number of Pages: 290

Dimensions: 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: October 01, 2010

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