Jefferson's America & Napoleon's France : an exhibition for the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial / Gail Feigenbaum ; essays by Victoria Cooke ... [et al.] ; edited by Victoria Cooke.
Publisher:
In Association with University of Washington Press, In Association with University of Washington Press,
Copyright Date:
c2003
Description:
xvii, 286 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La., Apr. 12-Aug. 31, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284)and index.
Contents:
"We dreamed of your times" : looking back at the Louisiana Purchase / Gail Feigenbaum -- Thomas Jefferson's Paris years : a Franco-American affair / Susan Taylor-Leduc -- Executive authority : images of leadership in post-revolutionary France and America / David O'Brien -- Napoleon, Egypt and the birth of orientalism / Victoria Cooke -- Napoleon and Josephine : public and private images / Susan Taylor-Leduc -- The state of American art / Paul Staiti -- Jefferson's Monticello / Susan R. Stein -- The native Americans and the Louisiana Purchase : who paid the price? / Bill Mercer and Paul Tarver -- New Orleans, site of the transfer, prize of the purchase / Jessie Poesch -- France, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase / Patrice Higonnet.
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