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Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Names of John Gergen examines the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
517 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"From an award-winning historian, a groundbreaking portrait of pervasive exploitation and radical resistance in America, told through the turbulent history of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past....
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 357 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Anglo-American colonists along the Atlantic seaboard began to protest British rule in the 1760s, a new settlement was emerging many miles west. St. Louis, founded simply as a French trading post, was expanding into a diverse global village. Few communities in eighteenth-century North America had such a varied population: indigenous Americans, French traders and farmers, African and Indian slaves, British officials, and immigrant explorers interacted...
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