Название: St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive
Автор: Carl J. Ekberg, Sharon K. Person
Издательство: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252080610
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 360
Размер: 19,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with the contrarian thesis that French government officials and institutions shaped and structured early city society.