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Empires of the imagination transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase

Title
Empires of the imagination [electronic resource] : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase / edited by Peter J. Kastor and Franc̦ois Weil.
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Kastor, Peter J.
  • Weil, François.
Description
1 online resource (370 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Jeffersonian America
Uniform Title
  • Empires of the imagination (Online)
  • Jeffersonian America.
Subject
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • National characteristics, American
  • United States > Relations > France
  • France > Relations > United States
  • United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century
  • United States > Social conditions > 19th century
  • United States > Civilization > French influences
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Prologue: Jefferson, Louisiana, and American nationhood / Peter S. Onuf -- The Louisiana Purchase and the fictions of empire / Richard White -- From incorporation to exclusion: Indians, Europeans, and Americans in the Mississippi Valley from 1699 to 1830 / Cécile Vidal -- The Haitian revolution and the sale of Louisiana; or, Thomas Jefferson's (unpaid) debt to Jean-Jacques Dessalines -- A tornado on the horizon: the Jefferson administration, the retrocession crisis, and the Louisiana Purchase / James E. Lewis Jr.-- The Louisiana Purchase in the demographic perspective of its time / Paul Lachance -- Refracted reformations and the making of republicans / Emily Clark -- Slave migrations and slave control in Spanish and early American New Orleans / Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec -- "They are all Frenchmen": background and nation in an age of transformation / Peter J. Kastor -- Edward Livingston, America, and France: making law / Mark Fernandez -- The purchase and the making of French Louisiana / François Weil -- Celebration and history: the case of the Louisiana Purchase / Jacques Portes and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol.
LCCN
2009011470
OCLC
ssj0000565351
Title
Empires of the imagination [electronic resource] : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase / edited by Peter J. Kastor and Franc̦ois Weil.
Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Series
Jeffersonian America
Jeffersonian America.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Kastor, Peter J.
Weil, François.
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