History As They Lived It A Social History of Prairie du Rocher Illinois 1st Edition by Margaret Kimball Brown, Carl Ekberg ISBN 978-0809333400 0809333406
Original price was: $50.00.$35.00Current price is: $35.00.
History As They Lived It A Social History of Prairie du Rocher Illinois 1st Edition by Margaret Kimball Brown, Carl J. Ekberg – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 978-0809333400, 0809333406
Full download History As They Lived It A Social History of Prairie du Rocher Illinois 1st Edition after payment
Product details:
ISBN 10: 0809333406
ISBN 13: 978-0809333400
Author: Margaret Kimball Brown, Carl J. Ekberg
“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. Louis. Located in an alluvial valley near towering limestone bluffs, which inspired the village’s name—French for “prairie of the rock”— Prairie du Rocher is the only one of the seven French colonial villages that still exists today as a small compact community.
The village of Prairie du Rocher endured governance by France, Great Britain, Virginia, and the Illinois territory before Illinois became a state in 1818. Despite these changes, the villagers persisted in maintaining the community and its values. Margaret Kimball Brown looks at one of the oldest towns in the region through the lenses of history and anthropology, utilizing extensive research in archives and public records to give historians, anthropologists, and general readers a lively depiction of this small community and its people.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 The French Regime: The Beginnings-1
Census 1723, 1725
The Canadians
Emigrants from France
Military and Government Officials
Other Settlers
Chapter 2 Governance in the Illinois-34
Marriage Contracts
Litigation
The Black Code
Local Government
The Fox Wars
Fort of Chartres
Chapter 3 Land, Life, and Labor-65
Land Grants
Common and Commonfield
The Villages
Economic Life
Colonial Society
Status of Women
Inventories
The Church
Chapter 4 Prairie du Rocher Under the French Regime-114
Land Grants in Prairie du Rocher
Other Settlers
Life in the 1740s
Government and the Church
War, Indians, and Population
Fort of Chartres
French and Indian War
Chapter 5 Under Three Flags-151
British Rule
Virginian Control
American Territory
Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 6 Old and New-196
Old Northwest Territory
Land Titles
After Statehood
Slave and Free
Culture and Customs
Status of Women
News and Views
Chapter 7 Becoming American-233
Population
Common and Commonfields
Church and Education
Black Citizens
Village Life
Chapter 8 On Into a New Century-261
Economy and Government
The Common
Language and Traditions
Black Citizens
Chartres Fort
Post World War II
To the End of the Century
Chapter 9 Present and Future-299
People also search for:
history is his story as a social being
a history of social media
social life history
b. why do you think they supported it
black history is the story of you and me
Tags: Margaret Kimball Brown, Carl Ekberg, They Lived, A Social History, Rocher Illinois