Format:
Book
Title:
The nation's crucible : the Louisiana Purchase and the creation of America / Peter J. Kastor.
Author:
Kastor, Peter J.
Call Number:
973.46 KASTOR
Publisher, Date:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Description:
xiii, 311 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Series:
Western Americana series
Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Louisiana Purchase.
Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, American.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Louisiana.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1801-1815.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.
Louisiana -- History -- 1803-1865.
Louisiana -- Race relations.
Contents:
Empires, republics, and nations (1763-1804) -- Louisiana Purchase (1803-1808) -- Crisis (1808-1815) -- Attachments (1815-1820).
ISBN:
0300101198 (alk. paper)