{"product_id":"history-louisiana-purchase","title":"\"The History of the Louisiana Purchase\" by James K. Hosmer — 1902","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUpdated on June 4, 2026:\u003c\/strong\u003e This has been sold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull title: \u003cem\u003eThe History of the Louisiana Purchase\u003c\/em\u003e by James K. Hosmer, Ph.D., LL. D. Published in New York by D. Appleton and Company in 1902. 282 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames K. Hosmer is a Member of the Minnesota Historical Society, First Vice-President of the American Library Association. Author of a \u003cem\u003eShort History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom, A Short History of the Mississippi Valley,\u003c\/em\u003e Etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book undertakes to describe a transaction—the sale by the French Government to the United States of the western half of the Mississippi Valley, known at the time as Louisiana. At the fortunes of this vast region, known now as the Louisiana Purchase, before and since that sale this book does nothing more than glance ; in a cursory way it gives only so much as is needed to make plain the character and importance of the incident. Now that we are about to celebrate, at St. Louis, one hundred years of possession on a scale commensurate with the grandeur of the acquisition, a book devoted closely to the crisis, written for the people, viewing affairs through the long perspective of a most eventful century, and recounting the European as well as the American phases of the story, seems certainly to be in place.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e $15. Please allow two weeks for shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History List","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52141161972014,"sku":"RARE-FINDS-LOUISIANA-PURCHASE-BOOK","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1185\/2944\/files\/rare-finds-louisiana-purchase-book-sold.jpg?v=1780636502","url":"https:\/\/store.thehistorylist.com\/products\/history-louisiana-purchase","provider":"The History List","version":"1.0","type":"link"}