The Louisiana Purchase
Subtitle: emergence of an American nation
By: Peter J. Kastor, editor.
Contributors: Kastor, Peter J.
Series: Landmark events in U.S. history series
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase; Louisiana Purchase -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Description: Presents essays and documents that provide information about the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, discussing why it happened, the dispute and debate set off by the purchase, and the changes that occurred in the United States as a result.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building a new nation : American politics in a revolutionary age / Andrew Trees; title: Children of empire or concitoyens? : Louisiana's French inhabitants / Jay Gitlin; title: Public perception and public events : the Louisiana Purchase and the American partisan press / Betty Houchin Winfield; title: Thomas Jefferson and the problem of world politics / James R. Sofka; title: The Burr conspiracy and the problem of western loyalty / James E. Lewis Jr.; title: Dehahuit and the question of change in North America / Peter J. Kastor; title: Edward livingston and the problem of law / Mark Fernandez; title: The Louisiana Purchase as seminal constitutional event / Sanford Levinson; title: The Louisiana Purchase and American federalism / Peter S. Onuf; title: Empire of liberty, empire of slavery : the Louisiana territories and the fate of American bondage / Robert E. Bonner.