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Article: A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest
- Article from:
- The Arkansas Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Arkansas Historical Association, Department of History, University of Arkansas Spring 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest. Edited by Patrick G. Williams, S. Charles Bolton, and Jeannie M. Whayne. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 228. Contributors, map, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, index. $19.95, paper.)
This collection of nine essays examines the effects of the Louisiana Purchase on the peoples of the so-called "old Southwest," mostly in the area that became the state of Arkansas. A number of the essays had been previously published but are here edited to give the ensemble coherence. Elliott West, Dan Flores, and Kathleen DuVal explore Jeffersonian expansion in part one. West sketches the broad ...