
Prologue: Jefferson, Louisiana, and American nationhood / Peter S. Onuf
The Louisiana Purchase and the fictions of empire / Richard White
From incorporation to exclusion: Indians, Europeans, and Americans in the Mississippi Valley from 1699 to 1830 / Cécile Vidal
The Haitian revolution and the sale of Louisiana; or, Thomas Jefferson's (unpaid) debt to Jean-Jacques Dessalines
A tornado on the horizon: the Jefferson administration, the retrocession crisis, and the Louisiana Purchase / James E. Lewis Jr.
The Louisiana Purchase in the demographic perspective of its time / Paul Lachance
Refracted reformations and the making of republicans / Emily Clark
Slave migrations and slave control in Spanish and early American New Orleans / Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
"They are all Frenchmen": background and nation in an age of transformation / Peter J. Kastor
Edward Livingston, America, and France: making law / Mark Fernandez
The purchase and the making of French Louisiana / François Weil
Celebration and history: the case of the Louisiana Purchase / Jacques Portes and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol.
Empires of the imagination : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase. ISBN 9780813928173. Published by University of Virginia Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.