Empires of the imagination [[electronic resource] ] : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase / / edited by Peter J. Kastor and Franco̧is Weil
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.4/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Louisiana Purchase |
| National characteristics, American | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
KastorPeter J
WeilFrançois
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ; 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Empires of the imagination |
| ISBN: | 1-280-49063-2 |
| 9786613585868 | |
| 0-8139-2817-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457681903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Jeffersonian America.