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UNINA9910781608703321 |
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Titolo |
Empires of the imagination [[electronic resource] ] : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase / / edited by Peter J. Kastor and Franco̧is Weil |
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-49063-2 |
9786613585868 |
0-8139-2817-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KastorPeter J |
WeilFrançois |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; 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": |
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