A wilderness so immense: the Louisiana Purchase and the destiny of America
Publisher's description: The remarkable story of the land purchase that doubled the size of our young nation, set the stage for its expansion across the continent, and confronted Americans with new challenges of ethnic and religious diversity. In a saga that stretches from Paris and Madrid to H...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Publisher's description: The remarkable story of the land purchase that doubled the size of our young nation, set the stage for its expansion across the continent, and confronted Americans with new challenges of ethnic and religious diversity. In a saga that stretches from Paris and Madrid to Haiti, Virginia, New York, and New Orleans, Jon Kukla shows how rivalries over the Mississippi River and its vast watershed brought France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States to the brink of war and shaped the destiny of the new American republic. We encounter American leaders--Jefferson and Jay, Monroe and Pickering among them--clashing over the opening of the West and its implications for sectional balance of power. We see these disagreements nearly derailing the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and spawning a series of separatist conspiracies long before the dispute over slavery in the territory set the stage for the Missouri Compromise and the Civil War. Kukla makes it clear that as the French Revolution and Napoleon's empire-building rocked the Atlantic community, Spain's New World empire grew increasingly vulnerable to American and European rivals. Jefferson hoped to take Spain's territories--piece by piece,--while Napoleon schemed to reestablish a French colonial empire in the Caribbean and North America. Interweaving the stories of ordinary settlers and imperial decision-makers, Kukla depicts a world of revolutionary intrigue that transformed a small and precarious union into a world power--all without bloodshed and for about four cents an acre. |
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Tributaries
ONE Piece by Piece
TWO Carlos III and Spanish Louisiana
THREE Poor Colonel Monroe
!
POUR A Long Train of Intrigue
FIVE The Touch of a Feather
SIX Bourbons on the Rocks
SEVEN Questions of Loyalty
EIGHT Banners of Blood
NINE A New Era in World History
TEN Mr. Pinckneys Mission
ELEVEN Affairs of Louisiana
TWE
LVE
The Embryo of a Tornado
THIRTEEN Selling a Ship
FOURTEEN Midnight in the Garden of Rue Trudon
FIFTEEN An Immense Wilderness
SIXT
Ε Ε Ν
Fluctuations of the Political Thermometer
EPILOGUE A Various Gabble of Tongues
3
6
24
46
70
90
103
121
136
156
179
195
216
235
259
284
310
333
x
Contents
Appendixes
A Treaty of
1795
Between the United States and Spain
341
В
Louisiana Purchase Treaty
350
С
Louisiana Purchase Conventions
354
D
Draft Amendments to the Constitution, July-August
1803 359
A Note on Texts and Translations
362
Notes
365
Acknowledgments
417
Index
41g
THE remarkable
story of the land pur¬
chase that doubled the size of our young nation,
set the stage for its expansion across the continent,
and confronted Americans with new challenges of
ethnic and religious diversity. In a saga that stretches
from Paris and Madrid to Haiti, Virginia, New York,
and New Orleans, Jon
Kukla
shows how rivalries over
the Mississippi River and its vast watershed brought
France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States
to the brink of war and shaped the destiny of the new
American republic. We encounter American lead¬
ers
—
Jefferson and Jay, Monroe and Pickering among
them
—
clashing over the opening of the West and its
implications for sectional balance of power. We see
these disagreements nearly derailing the Constitu¬
tional Convention of
1787
and spawning a series of
separatist conspiracies long before the dispute over
skiwrv in the territory set the stage for the Missouri
Compromise and the Civil War.
Kukla
makes it clear that as the French Revolution
and Napoleons empire-building rocked the Atlantic
community. Spain s New World empire grew increas¬
ingly vulnerable to American and European rivals.
Jefferson hoped to take Spain s territories piece by
piece. while Napoleon schemed to reestablish a
French colonial empire in the Caribbean and North
America.
Interweaving the stories of
ordinan
settlers and
imperial decision-makers.
Kukla
depicts a world of
revolutionary intrigue that transformed a small and
precarious union into a world power
—
all without
bloodshed and for about four cents an acre.
|
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Contents
Tributaries
ONE Piece by Piece
TWO Carlos III and Spanish Louisiana
THREE Poor Colonel Monroe
!
POUR A Long Train of Intrigue
FIVE The Touch of a Feather
SIX Bourbons on the Rocks
SEVEN Questions of Loyalty
EIGHT Banners of Blood
NINE A New Era in World History
TEN Mr. Pinckneys Mission
ELEVEN Affairs of Louisiana
TWE
LVE
The Embryo of a Tornado
THIRTEEN Selling a Ship
FOURTEEN Midnight in the Garden of Rue Trudon
FIFTEEN An Immense Wilderness
SIXT
Ε Ε Ν
Fluctuations of the Political Thermometer
EPILOGUE A Various Gabble of Tongues
3
6
24
46
70
90
103
121
136
156
179
195
216
235
259
284
310
333
x
Contents
Appendixes
A Treaty of
1795
Between the United States and Spain
341
В
Louisiana Purchase Treaty
350
С
Louisiana Purchase Conventions
354
D
Draft Amendments to the Constitution, July-August
1803 359
A Note on Texts and Translations
362
Notes
365
Acknowledgments
417
Index
41g
THE remarkable
story of the land pur¬
chase that doubled the size of our young nation,
set the stage for its expansion across the continent,
and confronted Americans with new challenges of
ethnic and religious diversity. In a saga that stretches
from Paris and Madrid to Haiti, Virginia, New York,
and New Orleans, Jon
Kukla
shows how rivalries over
the Mississippi River and its vast watershed brought
France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States
to the brink of'war and shaped the destiny of the new
American republic. We encounter American lead¬
ers
—
Jefferson and Jay, Monroe and Pickering among
them
—
clashing over the opening of the West and its
implications for sectional balance of power. We see
these disagreements nearly derailing the Constitu¬
tional Convention of
1787
and spawning a series of
separatist conspiracies long before the dispute over
skiwrv in the territory set the stage for the Missouri
Compromise and the Civil War.
Kukla
makes it clear that as the French Revolution
and Napoleons empire-building rocked the Atlantic
community. Spain's New World empire grew increas¬
ingly vulnerable to American and European rivals.
Jefferson hoped to take Spain's territories "piece by
piece." while Napoleon schemed to reestablish a
French colonial empire in the Caribbean and North
America.
Interweaving the stories of
ordinan
settlers and
imperial decision-makers.
Kukla
depicts a world of
revolutionary intrigue that transformed a small and
precarious union into a world power
—
all without
bloodshed and for about four cents an acre. |
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