The Louisiana Purchase
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9780197548141 (ISBN)
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A true pivotal moment in American history, the Louisiana Purchase redefined the boundaries of the United States and recharted the course of its history. The story behind it transcends borders The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from Napoleonic France in 1803, paying--so the story goes--a mere 15 million dollars, or "four cents an acre." The young nation more than doubled its size, absorbing the greater part of an
entire continent in a single real estate transaction. This overlooks a critical feature of the purchase, however: the agreement signed by Thomas Jefferson did not grant the American republic the land; it merely allowed
it to assume the authority to negotiate the acquisition of the land, which was still owned by Native Americans. The Louisiana Purchase was a founding event of what ultimately became the U.S.-Indian Treaty System, one that produced over two hundred Native American cessions between 1804 and 1970 and cost the United States billions of dollars.Alexander Mikaberidze's provocative and engrossing book examines what lay behind what eventually became one of the costliest
undertakings in American history--not only in dollars but in lives displaced and cultures erased. To do that, he looks beyond the period's diplomatic wranglings and delves into a broader story of European
colonialism to illuminate why Louisiana was passed around--from France to Spain, then back to France--before the U.S. purchase. How did it go from being a burden to a prize? Understanding the full significance of the Louisiana Purchase means expanding the narrative. The country's destiny was determined by men who had never walked the streets of New Orleans or gazed upon the majestic panoramas of the Rockies but who instead managed the finances of the world's empires.
Territorial ambition remains a persistent feature in American politics. This book compels us to appreciate the larger story of the purchase and its place in both national and global history.
Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History and the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. He is an award-winning author and editor of over two dozen books that have appeared in over half a dozen languages. His books Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace (Oxford 2022) and The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History (Oxford, 2020) received critical acclaim and won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Awards and the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Prize. He served as an editor for the multi-volume Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars (Cambridge, 2023).
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part 1: The Origins of the Louisiana Question
Chapter 1: The Flags in the Wind
Chapter 2: The Birth of Louisiana
Chapter 3: The Dueling Empires
Chapter 4: A Languishing Colony
Chapter 5: The First Louisiana Cession
Part 2: The Age of Uncertainty
Chapter 6: The Spanish Heydays
Chapter 7: Frontiersmen and Revolutionaries
Chapter 8: The Years of Conspiracy and Revolution
Chapter 9: The Imperial Republic
Chapter 10: Contrasting Minds, Competing Dreams
Chapter 11: Bonaparte's American Dream
Part 3: Transitions and Transfers
Chapter 12: "The Embryo of a Tornado"
Chapter 13: "Iron and Gold"
Chapter 14: The Closure of the Mississippi
Chapter 15: Renouncing Louisiana
Chapter 16: A Grand Bargain
Chapter 17: An Act Beyond the Constitution
Chapter 18: The Dawn of a New Era
Part 4: The Aftermath
Chapter 19: The Matters of Sovereignty
Chapter 20: At the Threshold of Wilderness
Chapter 21: A Troublesome Neighbor
Chapter 22: Following the Money
Conclusion: The Great American Poem
Notes
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Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780197548141 / 9780197548141 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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