[nativestudies-l] Today (11/18 : Jay Gitlin book signing/THE BOURGEOIS FRONTIER

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

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Subject: 	BOOK SIGNING/THE BOURGEOIS FRONTIER
Date: 	Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:11:43 -0500
From: 	Edith Rotkopf <edith.rotkopf at yale.edu>
To: 	westering at panlists.yale.edu




*Jay Gitlin
/THE BOURGEOIS FRONTIER:
French Towns, French Traders & American Expansion
/Wednesday, November 18th @ 5 PM
Labyrinth Books, New Haven
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*Join us at Labyrinth for a book party and signing with Jay Gitlin in 
honor of his new book from Yale University Press.  Wine and cheese--and  
chocolate--will be served.

Historians have tended 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 of westward expansion on a 
"bourgeois frontier" characterized as much by family connections, 
private enterprise, and negotiation as by conquest.

The Seven Years War brought an end to the French colonial enterprise in 
North America, but the French in towns such as New Orleans, St. Louis, 
and Detroit survived the transition to American rule. French traders 
from Mid-America such as the Chouteaus and Robidouxs of St. Louis then 
became agents of change in the West, perfecting a strategy of ?middle 
grounding? by pursuing alliances within Indian and Mexican communities 
in advance of American settlement and re-investing fur trade profits in 
land, town sites, banks, and transportation. /The Bourgeois Frontier 
/provides the missing French connection between the urban Midwest and 
western expansion.


*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.

*290 York Street
New Haven, CT
203.787.2848
www.labyrinthbooks.com <http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/>*

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