Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1914. / Typescript (carbon). Bibliography: leaves 165-172.

Thesis (Master of Letters)--University of California, Berkeley, June 1909.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Louisiana State University, 1964. / HTML version of 1964 thesis. Last viewed 6/28/2007. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 432-449).

The United States confronted new problems of territorial expansion with the Louisiana Purchase, as it involved, for the first time, the transfer in sovereignty of a territory that contained 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. A series of other colonial powers faced these same problems on the North American continent, notably the Spanish in Louisiana. As with those earlier powers, ultimately the United States pursued processes that both brought Louisiana government and law into line with its institutions, and allowed for continued local control. County and parish officeholders through their interactions with U.S. authorities prove especially useful for an examination of the processes that gradually integrated the Territory of Orleans into the United States. Neither a study of high political figures in Washington nor marginalized groups in Louisiana can accurately demonstrate how this process of accommodation worked. Local elites and U.S. officials served as the middlemen who oversaw the implementation of new policy and therefore were in a position to obstruct these policies if they so chose. Native-born Louisiana elites confronted significant challenges in dealing with a U.S. administration that in some areas chose to accommodate them, but in many others chose to implement policies through Anglo- American or foreign French newcomers to the territory. The change in sovereignty to the United States offered many individuals from local elites new pathways to power in the territorial legislature, and later in a stronger state legislature. Local governance played a central role in the success of U.S. sovereignty within Louisiana.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, May 1914. / Typewritten (carbon copy). Bibliography: p. 168-179.

Part of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1932. / "Private edition, distributed by the University of Chicago libraries." "Bonaparte's proposed Louisiana expedition is taken from Louisiana in French diplomacy, by E. Wilson Lyon. Copyright 1934 by the University of Oklahoma Press."

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, May 1914. / Typewritten (carbon copy). Bibliography: p. 168-179.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Peabody college for teachers, 1940. / Identical, except for half-title, with the edition published as Contribution to education, George Peabody college for teachers, no. 310. Bibliography: p. 115-120.