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History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie Du Rocher, Illinois
Contributor(s): Brown, Margaret Kimball (Author), Ekberg, Carl J. (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0809333406     ISBN-13: 9780809333400
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
OUR PRICE:   $24.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - General
- History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi
- History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Dewey: 977.392
LCCN: 2013044770
Series: Shawnee Books (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.11" W x 8.97" (1.11 lbs) 376 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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"His­tory as They Lived It deserves to be placed within the rich context of Illinois Country historiography going back more than a century. . . . It brings together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Country need such a book."--from the foreword by Carl J. Ekberg

Settled in 1722, Prairie du Rocher was at the geographic center of a French colony in the Mississippi Valley, which also included other villages in what is now Illinois and Missouri: Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Fort de Chartres, St. Philippe, Ste. Genevieve, and St. Louis. Located in an alluvial valley near towering limestone bluffs, which inspired the village's name--French for "prairie of the rock"-- Prairie du Rocher is the only one of the seven French colonial villages that still exists today as a small compact community.

The village of Prairie du Rocher endured governance by France, Great Britain, Virginia, and the Illinois territory before Illinois became a state in 1818. Despite these changes, the villagers persisted in maintaining the community and its values. Margaret Kimball Brown looks at one of the oldest towns in the region through the lenses of history and anthropology, utilizing extensive research in archives and public records to give historians, anthropologists, and general readers a lively depiction of this small community and its people.