Download or read book The Mississippi Valley Frontier written by John Anthony Caruso and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indians Settlers and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy written by Daniel H. Usner Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton South. Usner begins by providing a chronological overview of events from French settlement of the area in 1699 to Spanish acquisition of West Florida after the Revolution. He then shows how early confrontations and transactions shaped the formation of Louisiana into a distinct colonial region with a social system based on mutual needs of subsistence. Usner's focus on commerce allows him to illuminate the motives in the contest for empire among the French, English, and Spanish, as well as to trace the personal networks of communication and exchange that existed among the territory's inhabitants. By revealing the economic and social world of early Louisianians, he lays the groundwork for a better understanding of later Southern society.

Download or read book Spain in the Mississippi Valley 1765 1794 Problems of frontier defense 1792 1794 written by Lawrence Kinnaird and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mississippi Valley Frontier the Age of French Exploration and Settlement Maps by Neil E Bolyard written by Caruso, John Anthony and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Colonial Ste Genevieve written by Carl J. Ekberg and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Ekberg's masterwork on the old French town south of St. Louis brings into sharp focus life in colonial America. Ekberg has rendered a rich portrait of community life on the most fascinating of American frontiers, the composite world of French Creoles and American Indians in the Mississippi Valley. This is an important book and a good read to boot. That's how Yale University's John Mack Faragher praised this book.

Download or read book From Furs to Farms written by John Reda and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of French villages that straddled the Mississippi River for nearly a century before it was divided by the treaties that ended the Seven Years' War in the early 1760s. Spain acquired the territory on the west side of the river and Great Britain the territory on the east. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris and the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the entire region was controlled by the United States, and the white inhabitants were transformed from subjects to citizens. By 1825, Indian claims to the land that had become the states of Illinois and Missouri were nearly all extinguished, and most of the Indians had moved west. John Reda focuses on the people behind the Illinois Country's transformation from a society based on the fur trade between Europeans, Indians, and mixed-race (métis) peoples to one based on the commodification of land and the development of commercial agriculture. Many of these people were white and became active participants in the development of local, state, and federal governmental institutions. But many were Indian or métis people who lost both their lands and livelihoods, or black people who arrived—and remained—in bondage. In From Furs to Farms, Reda rewrites early national American history to include the specific people and places that make the period far more complex and compelling than what is depicted in the standard narrative. This fascinating work will interest historians, students, and general readers of US history and Midwestern studies.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in the Mississippi Valley written by John W. Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Mississippi Valley written by John Randolph Spears and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Short History of the Mississippi Valley written by James Kendall Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spanish American Frontier 1783 1795 written by Arthur Preston Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier 1795 1817 written by Robert V. Haynes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally inhabited by Native American tribes, territorial Mississippi has a complex history rife with fierce contention. Since 1540, when Hernando de Soto of Spain journeyed across the Atlantic and became the first European to stumble across its borders

Download or read book Frontier Exchange in the Lower Mississippi Valley written by Daniel Henry Usner (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Slavery and Frontier Mississippi 1720 1835 written by David J. Libby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular myth. It shows that Mississippi's past was never frozen, but always fluid. It shows too that slavery took a number of shapes before its form in the late antebellum mold became crystalized for popular culture. The colonial French introduced African slaves into this borderlands region situated on the periphery of French, Spanish, and English empires. In this frontier, planter society made unsuccessful attempts to produce tobacco, lumber, and indigo. Slavery outlasted each failed harvest. Through each era, plantation culture rode the back of a system far removed from the romantic stereotype. Almost simultaneously as Mississippi became a United States territory in the 1790s, cotton became the cash crop. The booming King Cotton economy changed Mississippi and adapted the slave system that was its foundation. Some Mississippi slaves resisted this grim oppression and rebelled by flight, work slowdowns, arson, and conspiracies. In 1835 a slave conspiracy in Madison County provoked such draconian response among local slave holders that planters throughout the state redoubled the iron locks on the system. Race relations in the state remained radicalized for many generations to follow. Beginning with the arrival of the first African slaves in the colony and extending over 115 years, this book is the first such history since Charles Sydnor's Slavery in Mississippi (1933).

Download or read book The Mississippi Valley Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,

Download or read book The Mississippi Valley and Prehistoric Events written by C. B. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Frontier in American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contact Points written by Andrew Robert Lee Cayton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these grou