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100 1 Beauchamp, M. K.|q(Michael Kelly),|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/no2020122045|eauthor.
245 10 Instruments of empire :|bcolonial elites and U.S.
governance in early national Louisiana, 1803-1815 /|cM. K.
Beauchamp.
264 1 Baton Rouge :|bLouisiana State University Press,|c[2021]
264 4 |c©2021
300 xii, 314 pages ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-306) and
index.
505 0 Introduction -- 1. Frontiers and colonial loyalties -- 2.
Natural and unnatural frontiers -- 3. Slaves and the
threat of internal revolt -- 4. Free people of color and
the limits of collaboration -- 5. Imperial compromises --
6. Co-option and collaboration -- Conclusion.
520 "Michael Beauchamp's "Instruments of Empire" is an
examination of the challenges posed to U.S. territorial
expansion by the Louisiana Purchase, a development that
transferred the sovereignty of a territory with a
population who by birth, language, and religion differed
substantially from the inhabitants of the United States,
but who had been guaranteed the rights of full citizens.
Beauchamp suggests that the subsequent process of gradual
accommodation between federal officials and local elites
in Louisiana served as an essential nationalizing
experience as the United States expanded during the
nineteenth century. After the U. S. acquired the region,
federal officials failed to put the Territory of Orleans
on a quick path to statehood due to doubts about the
loyalty of the local population and their capacity for
self-government. Instead, U.S. officials looked to other
supporters, including free people of color, native
Americans, and recent immigrants, all of whom found
themselves ideally placed to negotiate for greater
privileges from the new government. Beauchamp argues that
U.S. administrators, despite claims to impartiality and
equality before the law, regularly acted as agents of
imperial power in applying different rules to different
peoples. Most importantly, the new territorial government,
in its appointment practices, strove to assign local
elites to prominent positions within the parishes. Overall,
the methods utilized by the United States in governing
Louisiana had much in common with European colonial
practices elsewhere on the North American continent.
Beauchamp's study is one of the first to fully explore the
interactions of U.S. officials and local elites in the
territory from the perspective of the people who actually
underwent this experience. He places early Louisiana in
the broader national and international contexts that both
shaped the early state and contoured the nation and region,
revealing that Louisiana was not exceptional or outside
the American mainstream. His work offers transformational
insights about the interplay between class, ethnicity, and
race, as well as an understanding of colonialism, the
nature of republics, democracy, and empire. It also places
the territorial period in early national Louisiana in an
imperial context that reshapes perceptions of American
expansion and manifest destiny in the nineteenth century
and beyond. Beauchamp's work will be of interest not only
to specialists in Louisiana and the South, but also to
scholars of slavery and free people of color, nineteenth-
century American history, Atlantic World and border
studies, U.S. foreign relations, and the history of
colonialism and empire"--|cProvided by publisher.
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776 08 |iOnline version:|aBeauchamp, M. K. (Michael Kelly)
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