The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

By Jay Gitlin

Book Overview

"Gitlin's comprehensive portrait of mid-America's Francophone merchants demonstrates their importance as fur traders, town builders and advance agents of American empire. It adds a valuable new dimension to the story of national expansion and belongs on every western American history bookshelf."-William E. Foley, coauthor of The First Chouteaus

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300168039
• ISBN13: 9780300168037
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"