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The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes (Regional Perspectives on Early America)

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The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to supply a memorable tale of French designs in the midst of what became the USA. Putting the reader at the battlefields, at the trading posts, and at 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, continuously ruthless, imperial endeavor. Skinner’s engaging narrative takes the reader through day-to-day life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac, illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at Peoria, and explains how France’s New World adventurism played a role in the outbreak of the Seven Years War and the beginning of the brand new era.

In this story, some of the traditional heroes and villains of American history take on surprising roles. The last Stuart kings of England seem shrewd and even human; George Washington makes his debut appearance at the stage of history by assassinating a French officer and plunging Europe into the first really global war.

From unthinkable hardship to dreams of fur trade profits, this fascinating exploration sheds new light on France and its imperial venture into the Great Lakes.

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