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The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion (repost)

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The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion (repost)

The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion By Jay Gitlin
Publisher: Yale University Press 2009 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 030010118X | PDF | 2 MB

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 of westward expansion.