A whole country in commotion
Subtitle: the Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest
By: edited by Patrick G. Williams, S. Charles Bolton, and Jeannie M. Whayne.
Contributors: Williams, Patrick G., 1957-; Bolton, S. Charles.; Whayne, Jeannie M.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, Old.; Southwest, Old -- History -- 19th century.; Southwest, Old -- Ethnic relations.; Louisiana -- History -- To 1803.; Louisiana -- History -- 1803-1865.; Arkansas -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "Looking past the triumphal aspects of the purchase, this book examines the “negotiations among peoples, nations and empires that preceded and followed the actual transfer of territory.” Its nine essays highlight the “commotion” the purchase stirred up?among nations, among Louisiana residents and newcomers, even among those who remained east of the Mississippi." -- publisher website (June 2007).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a whole country in commotion / Patrick G. Williams; title: Lewis and Clark : kidnappers / Elliott West; title: Jefferson's grand expedition and the mystery of the Red River / Dan Flores; title: Could Louisiana have become an Hispano-Indian republic? / Kathleen DuVal; title: A shifting middle ground : Arkansas's frontier exchange economy and the Louisiana Purchase / Jeannie M. Whayne; title: Jeffersonian Indian removal and the emergence of Arkansas Territory / S. Charles Bolton; title: "Outcasts upon the world" : the Louisiana Purchase and the Quapaws / Joseph Patrick Key; title: The Louisiana Purchase and the Black experience / Charles F. Robinson II; title: The first years of American justice : courts and lawyers on the Arkansas frontier / Lynn Foster; title: Dancing into the past : colonial legacies in modern Caddo Indian ceremony / George Sabo III.