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Empires of the imagination : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase / edited by Peter J. Kastor and Franco̧is Weil.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jeffersonian America.
- Jeffersonian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Louisiana Purchase.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Relations--France.
- United States.
- France--Relations--United States.
- France.
- United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- United States--Civilization--French influences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- , Kalamazoo College * Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia * Jacques Portes, Université de Paris VIII * Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université de Paris VII-Denis Diderot * Cécile Vidal, L' École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales * François Weil, L' École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales * Richard White, Stanford University.
- 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 / Cecile 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585868
- 9781280490637
- 1280490632
- 9780813928173
- 0813928176
- OCLC:
- 759159958
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