| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Canada and the United States

Carl J. Ekberg. French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 359. $44.95.

This study of French colonial society and culture in the Illinois country of the eighteenth century is based on prodigious research in printed records and manuscript archives in France, Canada, and the United States. In a series of chapters that read like separate essays, Carl J. Ekberg provides a detailed and learned discussion of village life, demography, agricultural practice, landscape, and mentalité in Vincennes, Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Ste. Genevieve, and St. Louis. His earlier book on the Illinois French, Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier (1985), was intended for a popular audience. This study will have a more restricted readership, but it is a scholar's delight. . . .

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