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In one easy-access 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 every aspect and consequence of Thomas Jefferson's momentous transaction: the largest real estate deal in American history.

Readers will learn how the purchase made Manifest Destiny really seem like destiny; how it sparked the rise of America's urban industrial society and inflamed passions over the expansion of slavery; and how it triggered tragic conflicts between the government and Native Americans as well as immeasurable environmental damage. Ideal for students, historians, and public and private libraries, the Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference ever compiled on an event so central to the American experience that it seems to lie at the heart of everything triumphant and tragic in our history.

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Delivered as promised
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The Louisiana Purchase at Your Eyes!!!
When you begin to look at Dr. Rodriguez's Encyclopedia, you become entranced and amazed at how many people and places where involved in the Louisiana Purchase.Rodriquez breaks down the book an writes a description for each person and event during the Louisiana purchase.As one of his students at Eureka College it is very obvious that he is an Expert about The Louisiana Purchase.I suggest if you don't anything or think you know everything about The Louisiana Purchase, I suggest reading Dr. Rodriguez's encyclopedia. ... Read more

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Uncharted Territory

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000. The purchase made President Jefferson's dream of extending the U.S. west of the Mississippi River come true.

Now the much larger United States had difficult questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided into states? Would those states be free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Americans? It would take over one hundred years, a war over slavery, and the creation of thirteen new states before these questions could be answered. ... Read more

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A great way for kids to learn aboutAmerican History!
This wonderful, 84 page chapter book is an excellent way to get American history into your children. It's easy to read, easy to understand, and your children will find it entertaining as well as informative. They will learn about Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Livingston, James Monroe,Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sacagawea,andtheir respective roles in purchasing and exploring the Louisiana Purchase.Black and white illustrations are included throughout the book to help them visualize the events.It's so good, you'll want to read it yourself and learn what you didn't learn in school! I recommend using it for family reading times for K-6th grade. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1908.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1913.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1921.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1909.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Originally published in ca. 1920.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This glorious state-by-state panorama of America's past and present helps young readers understand how the development of each state fits into the grand mosaic of America's history.Graphic delights greet the eye with every turn of the page.Includes a reference section, maps, a glossary, and an index. ... Read more

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An interesting and accurate text
Textbooks get short shrift these days as being too tedious to read. I take exception concerning the series, FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA, and notably the "Louisiana" volume. (Note: This series, first published in the mid-1900's, was replaced by an updated set very recently--2009.) Because my school library has the older set, I am using them in my lessons on information and resource books.

As librarian, my job is to teach what's in the library--how to find it and how to use it, among various responsibilities. That's the bottom line to the verbiage of all those standards. How do I use what is there?

For this information lesson, I wanted to show how a book is organized and how to use those parts. So here goes part of the lesson for third through fifth grades, with allowances for age knowledge. Each student had a different state. We looked at the title page and found the word consultant, a good word to know. Now they do. On the verso (copyright) page, we found that the dates of our books varied by four years, the time it took to put together this series. We also discovered that the map of the United States in each state book is identical except for the individual state being colored tan to set it apart from the other 49 yellow states.

The Table of Contents has identical chapter headings, with almost identical paging. The chapter students really enjoyed and wanted to share with each other was "Gallery of Famous ___" (substitute the name/form of people who live in the state, eg "Gallery of Famous Louisianians"). People in Louisiana's gallery include Louis Armstrong, Clementine Hunter, Michael DeBakey, George Washington Cable (Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby, The Song of the South--zippety do dah), Kate Chopin, Lillian Hellman, Truman Capote, Ernest J. Gaines, Anne Rice, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Domino, Mahalia Jackson, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick, jr., Terry Bradshaw, and Eddie Robinson.

From the "Did You Know" chapter:
Louisiana produces about 60 million pounds of crawfish a year. They are served in soups, stews, gumbos, and jambalaya.

From the "Louisiana Information" chapter:
Nicknames: Pelican State, Bayou State, Creole State, Sportsman's Paradise, Sugar State

State tree: Bald Cypress
State Dog: Catahoula leopard dog
State Insect: Honeybee

We also examined the glossary and index and did a little exploration there.

And that's the "shining" state of Louisiana!

Please click on this title for the updated 2009 Louisiana text: Louisiana (From Sea to Shining Sea). I hope to get this updated set in a year or so.... (the dots represent finding funds....)

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Originally published in 1912.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Louisiana Investment and Business Guide (US Business and Investment Library) ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This guide to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed sculpture park features work by Max Ernst, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Jean Miro, Jean Dubuffet and many others. A handy map is included. ... Read more