The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes
(Part of the Regional Perspectives on Early America Series)
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The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur traders of popular myth as agents of a hard-nosed, often ruthless, imperial endeavor.
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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801888387
ISBN13:9780801888380
Release Date:June 2008
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary
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