| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America. By Peter J. Kastor. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xiv, 311 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-10119-8.)

Peter J. Kastor tells the story of how French-speaking foreigners became Americans, how eastern Americans became the nation that would expand across the continent, and how the two found common ground in excluding and exploiting blacks and Indians. In this vivid and compelling book, Kastor shows that the two decades following the Louisiana Purchase changed not only Louisiana but what it meant to be American.

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