In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country's first large population of nonnaturalized Americans--Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of those people dominated national affairs in the years that followed. This book chronicles that contentious period from 1803 to 1821, years during which people proposed numerous visions of the future for Louisiana and the United States. The Louisiana Purchase proved to be the crucible of American nationhood, Peter Kastor argues. The incorporation of Louisiana was among the most important tasks for a generation of federal policymakers. It also transformed the way people defined what it meant to be an American.

The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America

History

Kastor, Peter J.

Americas

Yale University Press

William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through Clark's life and career, this book explores how the West entered the American imagination. While he never called himself a writer or an artist, Clark nonetheless drew maps, produced books, drafted reports, surveyed landscapes, and wrote journals that made sense of the West for a new nation fascinated by the region’s potential but also fearful of its dangers. William Clark’s World presents a new take on the manifest destiny narrative and on the way the West took shape in the national imagination in the early nineteenth century.

William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns (The Lamar Series in Western History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country’s first large population of nonnaturalized Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of those people dominated national affairs in the years that followed. This book chronicles that contentious period from 1803 to 1821, years during which people proposed numerous visions of the future for Louisiana and the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase proved to be the crucible of American nationhood, Peter Kastor argues. The incorporation of Louisiana was among the most important tasks for a generation of federal policymakers. It also transformed the way people defined what it meant to be an American.

The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America (Western Americana)

This book takes a fresh look at the Louisiana Purchase, considered by many to be the single most important event in United States history. As a result of tension between two European powers and the yellow fever rampaging through the French army, our young country benefited beyond all imagining. This well-organized, readable text traces the story of Jefferson and Madison's concept of a small amount of land for a small price to Livingston's purchase of 900,000 square miles for 15 million dollars. Author Peter Kastor describes the changes that occurred for American, French, Spanish, and Native American residents after the Purchase was official.

The Great Acquisition: An Introduction to the Louisiana Purchase

Lewis & Clark Interpretive Assoc

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The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America

William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns (The Lamar Series in Western History)

The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America (Western Americana)

The Great Acquisition: An Introduction to the Louisiana Purchase