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The nation's crucible [electronic resource] : the Louisiana Purchase and the creation of America / Peter J. Kastor.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 311 p.) : mapISBN:
  • 9780300128246 (electronic bk.)
  • 030012824X (electronic bk.)
  • 0300101198 (alk. paper)
  • 9780300101195 (alk. paper)
  • 1281721808
  • 9781281721808
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nation's crucible.DDC classification:
  • 973.4/6 22
LOC classification:
  • E333 .K37 2004eb
Online resources:
Partial contents:
Empires, republics, and nations (1763-1804) -- Louisiana Purchase (1803-1808) -- Crisis (1808-1815) -- Attachments (1815-1820).
Summary: Publisher description: In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country's first large population of nonnaturalized Americans--Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of those people dominated national affairs in the years that followed. This book chronicles that contentious period from 1803 to 1821, years during which people proposed numerous visions of the future for Louisiana and the United States. The Louisiana Purchase proved to be the crucible of American nationhood, Peter Kastor argues. The incorporation of Louisiana was among the most important tasks for a generation of federal policymakers. It also transformed the way people defined what it meant to be an American.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 94(73) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-304) and index.

Empires, republics, and nations (1763-1804) -- Louisiana Purchase (1803-1808) -- Crisis (1808-1815) -- Attachments (1815-1820).

Publisher description: In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country's first large population of nonnaturalized Americans--Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of those people dominated national affairs in the years that followed. This book chronicles that contentious period from 1803 to 1821, years during which people proposed numerous visions of the future for Louisiana and the United States. The Louisiana Purchase proved to be the crucible of American nationhood, Peter Kastor argues. The incorporation of Louisiana was among the most important tasks for a generation of federal policymakers. It also transformed the way people defined what it meant to be an American.

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