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Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth blocked in dark green gold and black with a pictorial design with the state tree and seal in an Art Deco frame, titles blocked in gold to the spine, 276 pp. Includes a bibliography, primary source quotations, and thirty photogravure illustrations. *CONDITION: Very Good. Minor wear and some rubbing to spine at head and foot. Titles a bit faded to the spine. Inside, last signature shaken. Hinges in order. Engraved bookplate former owner to front endpaper. Now in mylar. ** Ms. Jones makes a case for the importance of the early French explorers, missionaries, and traders (Joliet, Marquette, La Salle) of the Mississippi Valley in the seventeenth century. She argues that the economic interests of the English were otherwise geographically engaged, leaving the area open to French influence. She argues that the enmity between the Algonquin and Iroquois was a buffer to conflict between the competing European interests of the colonial period. She further argues that Illinois's eventual status as a non-slave State affected the balance of power leading into the Civil War. Chapters are thus arranged by key events and inclusive of primary source quotations.
Ref: MIDW 9032
$65.00