Building a new nation : American politics in a revolutionary age / Andrew Trees -- Children of empire or concitoyens? : Louisiana's French inhabitants / Jay Gitlin -- Public perception and public events : the Louisiana Purchase and the American partisan press / Betty Houchin Winfield -- Thomas Jefferson and the problem of world politics / James R. Sofka -- The Burr conspiracy and the problem of western loyalty / James E. Lewis, Jr. -- Dehahuit and the question of change in North America / Peter J. Kastor -- Edward Livingston and the problem of law / Mark Fernandez -- The Louisiana Purchase as seminal constitutional event / Sanford Levinson -- The Louisiana Purchase and American federalism / Peter S. Onuf -- Empire of liberty, empire of slavery : the Louisiana territories and the fate of American bondage / Robert E. Bonner.