{"product_id":"shantyboats-and-roustabouts-gregg-andrews-9780807178478","title":"Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930","description":"Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film producers. As a result, images of these men and women are laden with nostalgia and minstrelsy. Gregg Andrews's \u003ci\u003eShantyboats and Roustabouts\u003c\/i\u003e uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the river poor in the Mississippi Valley, exploring their daily struggles and experiences and vividly describing people heretofore obscured by classist and racist caricatures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregg Andrews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807178470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807178478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2023","brand":"Gregg Andrews","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070843744511,"sku":"9780807178478","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58866953-c169-4fd6-83c8-378c4683970a.jpg?v=1685432659","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shantyboats-and-roustabouts-gregg-andrews-9780807178478","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}