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100 | _aWerner, Louis, | ||
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_aEclectic Currents of a Historic Deed. _cLouis Werner. |
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_bAmericas, _c2003. |
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_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2004. _nArticle 8, _pGlobal Issues, _x1522-3221; |
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500 | _aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. | ||
500 | _aOriginally Published: Eclectic Currents of a Historic Deed, April 2003; pp. 15-21. | ||
520 | _a"A number of cities in the United States will be celebrating the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of a nation and secured its control of a mighty watershed." (AMERICAS) This article explores the cultural heritage and historical significance of the Louisiana Purchase "which with the stroke of a pen France sold to the United States its greatest North American territory--all land west of the Mississippi River drained by its tributaries--over which the Spanish flag had flown for the previous forty years." | ||
599 | _aRecords created from non-MARC resource. | ||
650 | _aAnniversaries | ||
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_aFrance _xColonies |
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650 | _aLouisiana Purchase (1803) | ||
651 | _aMississippi River Watershed | ||
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_aSpain _xColonies |
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_aUnited States _xHistory _y1783-1865 _xUnited States |
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_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2004, _pGlobal Issues. _x1522-3221; |
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