Empires of the imagination : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase /

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""Empires of the Imagination" takes the Louisiana Purchase as a point of departure for a compelling new discussion of the interaction between France and the United States. In addition to offering the first substantive synthesis of this transatlantic relationship, the essays collected...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Kastor, Peter J., Weil, François
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Collection:Jeffersonian America.
Sujets:
1800-1899
Louisiana Purchase.
National characteristics, American.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Civilization > French influences
International relations
Louisiana Purchase
National characteristics, American
Social conditions
Territorial expansion
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.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale > Histoire > 19e siècle.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
États-Unis > Civilisation > Influence française.
France
United States
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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