The Louisiana Purchase bicentennial series in Louisiana history
Author : Center for Louisiana Studies Lafayette, La
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File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Center for Louisiana Studies Lafayette, La
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Louisiana
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Author : University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Louisiana
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Author : University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies
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Page : 768 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Louisiana
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Author : University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies
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Page : 680 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Louisiana
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File Size : 21,10 MB
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : 9781610754590
Author : Peter J. Kastor
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2002-09-27
Category : History
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A reference anthology providing contributed essays by eminent scholars with excerpts of primary source documents (accompanied by explanatory head notes) to address the reasons why the Louisiana Purchase happened and to examine the tremendous changes it brought about. The introduction explains the details of the purchase. Chapters that follow explore the political cultures on both sides of the Mississippi River in the years immediately preceding the Louisiana Purchase the events immediately related to the Louisiana Purchase through the experiences of Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr (Jefferson's controversial vice president), Dehahuit (Caddo Indian chief), and Edward Livingston (politician and legal theorist); and the Louisiana Purchase's connections to American politics and constitutionalism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Joe Gray Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 1984-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393243745
From the earliest colonists through the latest Mardi Gras, Louisiana has had a history as exotic as that of any state. Even its political corruption--extending from French governors for whom office was exploitable property through the "Louisiana Hayride" following the death of Huey Long--seems to have had a glamorous side. Handing the colony of Louisiana back and forth between their empires, the French and Spanish left a legacy that lives in such forms as the architecture of the Vieux Carre and a civil law deriving from the Napoleonic Code. Acadian refugees, German farmers, black slaves and free blacks, along with Italians, Irish, and the "Kaintucks" who helped Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans added to the state's distinctiveness. Made rich by sugar cane, cotton, and Mississippi River commerce before the Civil War, Louisiana faced poverty afterward. Battles between Bourbon Democrats and Reconstruction Republicans followed, ultimately involving the Custom House Ring and the Knights of the White Camelia. By methods that remain controversial, Huey Long ended "government by gentlemen" with economic transformations other had sought. Gas, oil, and industrialization have additionally "Americanized" the state. Something of Louisiana's historic joie de vivre remains, however, to the gratification of residents and visitors alike; both will enjoy Joe Gray Taylor's telling of the story.
Author : Robert D. Bush
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 113507772X
In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation’s geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over the purchase, which many believed to be unconstitutional, during which time the land changed hands between the French and the Spanish. In perhaps the nation's most formative development since the Revolutionary War, the deal secured the U.S. territory that would become fifteen new states, sparked intense public argument about the American Frontier, and ensured Jefferson a complicated legacy in American history. With special attention to the diplomatic and constitutional background of the purchase, The Louisiana Purchase examines the event in the context of the Atlantic world, including the impact of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars in Europe, colonial revolutions in the Caribbean, and the westward expansion of the U.S. population. In five concise chapters bolstered by primary documents including treaties, letters, and first-hand observations, Robert D. Bush introduces students to the political history of this momentous land acquisition.