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022 _a1522-3221;
050 _aAC1.S5
082 _a050
100 _aWerner, Louis,
245 0 _aEclectic Currents of a Historic Deed.
_cLouis Werner.
260 _bAmericas,
_c2003.
440 _aSIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
_nArticle 8,
_pGlobal Issues,
_x1522-3221;
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
651 _aFrance
_xColonies
650 _aLouisiana Purchase (1803)
651 _aMississippi River Watershed
651 _aSpain
_xColonies
651 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_y1783-1865
_xUnited States
710 _aProQuest Information and Learning Company
_tSIRS Enduring Issues 2004,
_pGlobal Issues.
_x1522-3221;
942 _c UKN
999 _c35265
_d35265