St. Louis from village to metropolis
Subtitle: essays from the Missouri historical review, 1906-2006
By: edited with an introduction by Louis S. Gerteis
Contributors: State Historical Society of Missouri
Series: Century of Missouri history scholarship series; Century of Missouri history scholarship series
Publisher: State Historical Society of Missouri; Lindenwood University Press; Lindenwood University Press & State Historical Society of Missouri
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo; St. Charles, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780981693903
Other titles: Missouri historical review.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first Jews in St. Louis / Walter Ehrlich; title: "Endangering the peace of society" : abolitionist agitation and mob reaction in St. Louis and Alton, 1836-1838 / Bonnie E. Laughlin; title: Lutheran families in St. Louis and Perry County, Missouri, 1839-1870 / Louise Buenger Robbert; title: Social life in St. Louis from 1840 to 1860 / Helen Davault Williams; title: Business life in St. Louis, Missouri, 1847-1848, as revealed in the letters of North Carolina immigrants / Lewis E. Atherton; title: The National Railroad Convention in St. Louis, 1849 / R.S. Cotterill; title: Yankee merchants in a border city : a look at St. Louis businessmen in the 1850s / James Neal Primm; title: "An outrage on humanity" : martial law and military prisons in St. Louis during the Civil War / Louis S. Gerteis; title: Race relations in St. Louis, 1865-1919 / Lawrence O. Christensen; title: China at the St. Louis World's Fair / Irene E. Cortinovis; title: St. Louis tourist-sportsmen : urban clubs in the wetlands / Lynn Morrow; title: Creating the dream : Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 1933-1935 / Sharon A. Brown; title: Fighting for democracy in St. Louis : civil rights during World War II / Patricia L. Adams; title: "She got to Berlin" : Virginia Irwin, St. Louis post-dispatch war correspondent / Anne R. Kenney.