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Empires of the imagination : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase / edited by Peter J. Kastor and Franc̦ois Weil.

Other author/creatorKastor, Peter J.
Other author/creatorWeil, François.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
Description370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Jeffersonian America
Jeffersonian America. ^A426223
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009011470
ISBN9780813928074 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0813928079 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813928173 (e-book)
ISBN0813928176 (e-book)

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