Empires of the Imagination : Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Empire -- The Louisiana Purchase and the Fictions of Empire -- From Incorporation to Exclusion: Indians, Europeans, and Americans in theMississippi Valley from 1699 to 1830 -- 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 -- Identity -- The Louisiana Purchase in the Demographic Perspective of its Time -- Refracted Reformations and the Making of Republicans -- Slave Migrations and Slave Control in Spanish and Early American New Orleans -- "They Are All Frenchmen": Background and Nation in an Age of Transformation -- Edward Livingston, America, and France: Making Law -- Memory -- The Purchase and the Making of French Louisiana -- Celebration and History: The Case of the Louisiana Purchase -- List of Contributors -- Index.

, Kalamazoo College * Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia * Jacques Portes, Université de Paris VIII * Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université de Paris VII-Denis Diderot * Cécile Vidal, L' École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales * François Weil, L' École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales * Richard White, Stanford University.

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