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Article: In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860
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- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
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- July 1, 2009
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In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the AngloAmerican Imagination, 1780-1860. By Edward Watts (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 288. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth $59.95; Paper $19.95).
American attention to the French has been paid only intermittently and, when it has been paid, has often been ambiguous. This is all the more intriguing because the two nations have shared basic values rooted in the Enlightenment. Illinois historiography has roughly paralleled this pattern, with Clarence Alvord's discovery in 1905 of Kaskaskia records (1720-1790) in the Randolph County courthouse spiking interest in France's Illinois Country, only to lapse ...