The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia

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In one easy-get right of entry to resource, The Louisiana Purchase brings together the work of over 100 experts covering historical figures, relevant legal and historical concepts, states that formed in the new territory, frontier outposts, and the Native Americans uprooted by expansion westward. The book examines each and every aspect and consequence of Thomas Jefferson’s momentous transaction: the largest real estate deal in American history.

Readers will learn the way the purchase made Manifest Destiny in point of fact appear to be destiny; how it sparked the upward thrust of The us’s urban industrial society and inflamed passions over the expansion of slavery; and how it triggered tragic conflicts between the government and Native Americans in addition to immeasurable environmental damage. Ideal for students, historians, and private and non-private libraries, the Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference ever compiled on an event so central to the American experience that it kind of feels to lie at the heart of everything triumphant and tragic in our history.

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