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



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Titolo: Empires of the imagination : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase / / edited by Peter J. Kastor and Franco̧is Weil Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
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
Altri autori: KastorPeter J  
WeilFrançois  
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.
Sommario/riassunto: , 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Empires of the imagination  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49063-2
9786613585868
0-8139-2817-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810515403321
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Serie: Jeffersonian America.