The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion by Jay Gitlin

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

The Lamar Western History

Jay Gitlin

290 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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...

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