The Louisiana Purchase: A Global Context

by Robert D. Bush

Book Overview

In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation's geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over the purchase, which many believed to be unconstitutional, during which time the land changed hands between the French and the Spanish. In perhaps the nation's most formative development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041581457X
• ISBN13: 9780415814577
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"