Table of Contents:
  • Signares, habitants, and grumets in the making of Saint Louis
  • Mβetis society and transformations in the colonial economy (1820-70)
  • Religion, marriage, and material culture
  • Education, association, and an independent press
  • From outpost to empire
  • Electoral politics and the mβetis (1870-90)
  • Urban politics and the limits of republicanism (1890-1920).