000435069 000__ 02872cam\a2200337\a\4500 000435069 001__ 435069 000435069 005__ 20210513152042.0 000435069 008__ 021223s2003\\\\nju\\\\\\\\\\\000\0\eng\\ 000435069 010__ $$a 2002156131 000435069 019__ $$a52145778 000435069 020__ $$a0471267384 000435069 020__ $$a9780471267386 000435069 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm51293991 000435069 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dIG#$$dMNM$$dUKM$$dRLS$$dOCLCQ$$dXY4$$dYBM$$dBAKER$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dCQU$$dUBC$$dHEBIS$$dOCLCQ$$dZCU$$dISE 000435069 043__ $$an-us-la$$an-usm--$$an-us--- 000435069 049__ $$aISEA 000435069 05000 $$aE333$$b.F58 2003 000435069 08200 $$a973.4/6$$221 000435069 1001_ $$aFleming, Thomas J. 000435069 24514 $$aThe Louisiana Purchase /$$cThomas Fleming. 000435069 260__ $$aHoboken, N.J. :$$bJ. Wiley,$$cc2003. 000435069 300__ $$avi, 186 p. ;$$c21 cm. 000435069 4901_ $$aTurning points 000435069 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references. 000435069 5050_ $$aIdealist at work -- Realist at work -- The game begins -- Frustration all around -- Aedes Aegypti to the rescue -- The dying general -- A war hero to the rescue -- Between peace and war -- All eyes on Paris -- The big bargain -- Hanging fire -- Constitution bending in Washington D.C. -- Triumph and new perils -- Destiny takes charge -- Final challenge. 000435069 5201_ $$a"In 1801, relations between the world's only two republics, the United States and France, were at a low ebb. American merchants had just lost millions of dollars to French privateers in the "Quasi-War" of the late 1790s, and Napoleon was scheming to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Spain and create a "wall of brass" that would halt America's westward expansion. Yet only a few years later, Napoleon agreed to sell Louisiana to the United States for $15 million. How did America manage to double its territory and end French colonial ambitions in the New World - without firing a shot?" "This book by historian Thomas Fleming delivers the answers. Taking us behind the scenes in. Thomas Jefferson's raw "federal village" of Washington, D.C., and inside the duplicitous world of Napoleonic Paris, Fleming shows how Bonaparte haters in Spain, the French army's disastrous failure in Haiti, some wily American negotiating, and Napoleon's resolve to renew his war with "perfidious Albion" led to the momentous French decision to sell Louisiana - and cede 838,000 square miles of land to the United States. Along the way, we meet a host of characters as they attempt to advance their nations' interests - and their personal ambitions - through diplomacy, threats, lies, bribery, and treachery."--Jacket. 000435069 650_0 $$aLouisiana Purchase. 000435069 830_0 $$aTurning points (John Wiley & Sons) 000435069 85200 $$bgen$$hE333$$i.F58$$i2003 000435069 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley044/2002156131.html 000435069 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley037/2002156131.html 000435069 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/wiley031/2002156131.html 000435069 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:435069$$pGLOBAL_SET 000435069 980__ $$aBIB 000435069 980__ $$aBOOK