Format:
1 Online-Ressource (370 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813928079
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0813928176
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9780813928074
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9780813928173
Series Statement:
Jeffersonian America
Content:
"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 here offer new interpretations on themes vital to the subject, ranging from political culture to intercultural contact to ethnic identity. They capture the cultural breadth of the territories encompassed by the Louisiana Purchase, exploring not only French and Anglo-American experiences, but also those of Native Americans and African Americans. Despite differences in concerns and methods, the pieces collected share crucial ground in how they suggest new ways for thinking about empire, identity, and memory. The authors show how France and the United States set about their competing imperial projects even as residents of the North American West effectively resisted those imperial aims, creating instead
Content:
Their own notions of community and connection. At the same time, these essays show how the contact among peoples created new social configurations and distinct cultural identities. Moving beyond the particulars of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, these essays reveal how the Louisiana Purchase subsequently entered into the public consciousness on both sides of the Atlantic in ways that continue to define imperial projects, racial identities, and ethnic communities. Delineating a unique moment in transatlantic historical conversation, "Empires of the Imagination" also provides important lessons in cross-disciplinary approaches to North American and Atlantic history. In addition to the multinational perspectives of the authors, individual essays deploy social science history, political culture, and ideological history, as well as social and cultural history, to create a cohesive understanding of diverse experiences."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Prologue: Jefferson, Louisiana, and American nationhood
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The Louisiana Purchase and the fictions of empire
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From incorporation to exclusion: Indians, Europeans, and Americans in the Mississippi Valley from 1699 to 1830
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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
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The Louisiana Purchase in the demographic perspective of its time
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Refracted reformations and the making of republicans
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Slave migrations and slave control in Spanish and early American New Orleans
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"They are all Frenchmen": background and nation in an age of transformation
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Edward Livingston, America, and France: making law
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The purchase and the making of French Louisiana
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Celebration and history: the case of the Louisiana Purchase
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813928074
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813928079
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Empires of the imagination Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009
Language:
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